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* Re: [patch 3/3] S390-HWBKPT v3: Modify ptrace to use Hardware Breakpoint interfaces.
       [not found]   ` <20100120110805.GD7619@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
@ 2010-01-21  5:41     ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
  2010-01-21  6:58     ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar @ 2010-01-21  5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel, ffweisbec; +Cc: Heiko Carstens, schwidefsky, K.Prasad

Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:58:59AM +0530, Mahesh Salgaonkar wrote:
>> Modify the ptrace code to use the hardware breakpoint interfaces for
>> user-space
> 
> I didn't look too deep into this one. So actually only one trivial comment:
> 
>> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> index 9a1d276..cb74f24 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>>
>>  	__u64			bp_addr;
>>  	__u32			bp_type;
>> +#ifdef __s390x__
>> +	__u64			bp_len;
>> +#else
>>  	__u32			bp_len;
>> +#endif
>>  };
>>
>>  /*
>>
> 
> Any chance to change common code to change that to an __u64 (unconditional)
> or at least an unsigned long?
> I'd hate to see an ifdef __s390x__ in common code.

Can we have the above common code to change the type of 'bp_len' to 
__u64? In s390x arch watch point length can be upto 2^64.

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* Re: [patch 3/3] S390-HWBKPT v3: Modify ptrace to use Hardware Breakpoint interfaces.
       [not found]   ` <20100120110805.GD7619@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
  2010-01-21  5:41     ` [patch 3/3] S390-HWBKPT v3: Modify ptrace to use Hardware Breakpoint interfaces Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
@ 2010-01-21  6:58     ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
  2010-01-25 20:40       ` Frederic Weisbecker
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar @ 2010-01-21  6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel, fweisbec; +Cc: Heiko Carstens, schwidefsky, K.Prasad

Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:58:59AM +0530, Mahesh Salgaonkar wrote:
>> Modify the ptrace code to use the hardware breakpoint interfaces for
>> user-space
> 
> I didn't look too deep into this one. So actually only one trivial comment:
> 
>> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> index 9a1d276..cb74f24 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>>
>>  	__u64			bp_addr;
>>  	__u32			bp_type;
>> +#ifdef __s390x__
>> +	__u64			bp_len;
>> +#else
>>  	__u32			bp_len;
>> +#endif
>>  };
>>
>>  /*
>>
> 
> Any chance to change common code to change that to an __u64 (unconditional)
> or at least an unsigned long?
> I'd hate to see an ifdef __s390x__ in common code.

Can we have the above common code to change the type of 'bp_len' to 
__u64? In s390x arch watch point length can be upto 2^64.

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* Re: [patch 3/3] S390-HWBKPT v3: Modify ptrace to use Hardware Breakpoint interfaces.
  2010-01-21  6:58     ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
@ 2010-01-25 20:40       ` Frederic Weisbecker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Frederic Weisbecker @ 2010-01-25 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
  Cc: Linux Kernel, Heiko Carstens, schwidefsky, K.Prasad

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:28:39PM +0530, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar wrote:
> Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:58:59AM +0530, Mahesh Salgaonkar wrote:
>>> Modify the ptrace code to use the hardware breakpoint interfaces for
>>> user-space
>>
>> I didn't look too deep into this one. So actually only one trivial comment:
>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>>> index 9a1d276..cb74f24 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>>> @@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>>>
>>>  	__u64			bp_addr;
>>>  	__u32			bp_type;
>>> +#ifdef __s390x__
>>> +	__u64			bp_len;
>>> +#else
>>>  	__u32			bp_len;
>>> +#endif
>>>  };
>>>
>>>  /*
>>>
>>
>> Any chance to change common code to change that to an __u64 (unconditional)
>> or at least an unsigned long?
>> I'd hate to see an ifdef __s390x__ in common code.
>
> Can we have the above common code to change the type of 'bp_len' to  
> __u64? In s390x arch watch point length can be upto 2^64.



Yep, please send a patch to make it a generic u64 if an arch needs it.
We really need a fixed cross arch size for this structure.

Thanks!


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