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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Himanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@nulltrace.org>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: KProbes support v0.1
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:12:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C117F86.5090408@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100608175118.GA2262@hschauhan-desktop>

On 06/08/2010 10:51 AM, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for taking a look.
>
[...]
>>> +
>>> +#define BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION		0x0000000d
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * We do not have hardware single-stepping on MIPS.
>>> + * So we implement software single-stepping with breakpoint
>>> + * trap 'break 5'.
>>> + */
>>> +#define BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION_2	0x0000014d
>>
>> The BREAK codes are defined in asm/break.h  This should be added
>> there instead.
>>
>> Why do you use codes (0 and 5) that are already kind of reserved for
>> user space debuggers?
>
> As said ealier, this patch was based on some very older patch of 2.6.16 from
> Sony Corp, I didn't make much changes like this. But anyways, I wan't aware of
> this either. What would be the best code then?
>

How about allocating them after BRK_MEMU?  Say 515 and 516 or something 
like that.

David Daney

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-11  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 16:33 [PATCH] Kprobes support for MIPS architecture Himanshu Chauhan
2010-06-07 16:34 ` [PATCH] MIPS: KProbes support v0.1 Himanshu Chauhan
2010-06-07 19:41   ` David Daney
2010-06-08 17:51     ` Himanshu Chauhan
2010-06-11  0:12       ` David Daney [this message]

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