From: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
To: opensbi@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] lib: sbi: add support for debug triggers
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 23:34:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y45V3fAIOc9jNGaG@curiosity> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57086abe77447357d6f33cc92f713e2c08860c0b.camel@126.com>
> > RISC-V Debug specification includes Sdtrig ISA extension.
> > This extension describes Trigger Module. Triggers can cause
> > a breakpoint exception, entry into Debug Mode, or a trace
> > action without having to execute a special instruction. For
> > native debugging triggers can be used to implement hardware
> > breakpoints and watchpoints.
> >
> > Software support for triggers consists of the following
> > major components:
> > - U-mode: gdb
> > - S-mode: hardware breakpoints framework in Linux kernel
> > - M-mode: SBI firmware code to handle triggers
> >
> > SBI Debug Trigger extension proposal has been posted by
> > Anup Patel to lists.riscv.org tech-debug mailing list:
> > https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-debug/topic/92375492
> >
> > This patch provides initial implementation of SBI Debug
> > Trigger Extension in OpenSBI library based on the
> > suggested extension proposal.
> >
> > Initial implementation has the following limitations:
> > - supported triggers: mcontrol, mcontrol6
> > - no support for chained triggers
> > - only build test for RV32
> >
> Missing Signed-off-by
Thanks for catching, will fix.
> Compilation preprocessing too much. It is recommended to process register
> fields by defining some masks, and via INSERT_FIELD and EXTRACT_FIELD.
Indeed, current bitfield/union code looks awkward. I'll try to make it
more comprehensible in the next revision. BTW thanks for mentioning
INSERT/EXTRACT - I missed them when looking for something suitable
bitops header.
Regards,
Sergey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-03 21:39 [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] lib: sbi: add support for debug triggers Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-03 21:39 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] include: sbi: endianness conversion macros Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-03 21:39 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] lib: sbi: add support for debug triggers Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-04 11:56 ` Xiang W
2022-12-05 20:34 ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2022-12-08 12:49 ` Himanshu Chauhan
2022-12-10 20:42 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-10 16:54 ` Xiang W
2022-12-10 19:15 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-11 1:40 ` Xiang W
2022-12-13 19:43 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2022-12-03 21:59 ` [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] " Sergey Matyukevich
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