On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:55:02AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:53:30PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> > While PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG ptrace flag in PowerPC accepts
> > PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT mode of breakpoint, the same is not intimated to
> > the
> > user-space debuggers (like GDB) who may want to use it. Hence we introduce a
> > new PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_EXACT flag which will be populated on the
> > "features" member of "struct ppc_debug_info" to advertise support for the
> > same on Book3E PowerPC processors.
>
> Hrm. I had assumed the reason there wasn't a feature bit for EXACT
> originally was that EXACT breakpoints were *always* supposed to be
> supported by the new interface.
>
Okay. Although BookS doesn't support EXACT breakpoints, it is possible
(after the introduction of new hw-breakpoint interfaces) to request for
a breakpoint of length 1 Byte.
The hw-breakpoint infrastructure would take care of filtering the
extraneous interrupts arising out of accesses in the neighbourhood, in
such a case.
David,
Can you Ack this patch too, if you find the changes acceptable?
Thanks,
K.Prasad
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