From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>,
maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 06/12] Use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:42:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528064238.GC3091@yookeroo.seuss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511115344.GG25673@in.ibm.com>
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:23:44PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
>
> This patch enables the use of abstract debug registers in
> process-handling routines.
[snip]
>
> + p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;
Why is manipulating the io_bitmap_ptr relevant to debug register
handling?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090511114422.133566343@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-05-11 11:52 ` [Patch 01/12] Prepare the code for Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-05-28 5:28 ` David Gibson
2009-05-28 11:10 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:52 ` [Patch 02/12] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2009-05-11 12:12 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-05-11 12:16 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-28 6:15 ` David Gibson
2009-05-28 11:55 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-29 2:59 ` David Gibson
2009-05-11 11:53 ` [Patch 03/12] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-05-28 6:35 ` David Gibson
2009-05-28 13:41 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-29 3:15 ` David Gibson
2009-05-11 11:53 ` [Patch 04/12] Modifying generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:53 ` [Patch 05/12] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:53 ` [Patch 06/12] Use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code K.Prasad
2009-05-28 6:42 ` David Gibson [this message]
2009-05-29 9:01 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-29 10:49 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-29 13:52 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-29 14:07 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-05-30 11:00 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-29 13:54 ` Alan Stern
2009-05-11 11:53 ` [Patch 07/12] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:54 ` [Patch 08/12] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:54 ` [Patch 09/12] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:54 ` [Patch 10/12] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:55 ` [Patch 11/12] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v4 K.Prasad
2009-05-11 22:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-12 14:19 ` [Patch 11/12] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HWBreakpoint " K.Prasad
2009-05-12 15:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-12 20:02 ` [Patch 11/12] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing usingHWBreakpoint " K.Prasad
2009-05-11 11:55 ` [Patch 12/12] Reset bits in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled K.Prasad
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2009-06-01 18:14 ` [Patch 06/12] Use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code K.Prasad
[not found] <20090530103857.715014561@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-05-30 10:52 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090521095613.834622717@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-05-21 14:02 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090515105133.629980476@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-05-15 10:58 ` K.Prasad
2009-05-16 0:29 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090513160546.592373797@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-05-13 16:14 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090424055710.764502564@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-04-24 6:17 ` K.Prasad
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