[PATCH] kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb.

[Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>]

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Hi,

I'm using i.MX31 ARM11 board which has 104Mbyte valid memory.
When I'd invoked a print command to write the last of valid memory from gdb,
there was no response from kgdb.

It seems that the following line causes this problem.

kernel/kgdb.c: write_mem_msg()
...
 491 			flush_icache_range(addr, addr + length + 1);

If the last byte of valid memory is specified, the last cache line and the next
cache line will be flushed by the ARM11 V6's function from flush_icache_range().
I'm not sure why the 2nd parameter has +1, I assume this +1 is unnecessary for
ARM11 V6's cache.
I send a patch to remove this +1, does anyone know necessity for other architectures?

Regards,

Signed-off-by Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>

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 kernel/kgdb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c
index eaa21fc..949806a 100644
--- a/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static int write_mem_msg(int binary)
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 		if (CACHE_FLUSH_IS_SAFE)
-			flush_icache_range(addr, addr + length + 1);
+			flush_icache_range(addr, addr + length);
 		return 0;
 	}