Re: powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Neuling
Hi, > I assume you are the right person to ask this question. Yep I am but adding linuxppc-dev mailing list to CC anyway. > We are running the Linux kernel version 3.8.13 on a PPC750FX 32-bit > based board without any problems; however, when I tried to boot > version 3.9.2 on the same board, I

[PATCH 6/7] powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers

2013-01-09 Thread Michael Neuling
This is a rewrite so that we don't assume we are using the DABR throughout the code. We now use the arch_hw_breakpoint to store the breakpoint in a generic manner in the thread_struct, rather than storing the raw DABR value. The ptrace GET/SET_DEBUGREG interface currently passes the raw DABR in f

[PATCH 6/7] powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Neuling
This is a rewrite so that we don't assume we are using the DABR throughout the code. We now use the arch_hw_breakpoint to store the breakpoint in a generic manner in the thread_struct, rather than storing the raw DABR value. The ptrace GET/SET_DEBUGREG interface currently passes the raw DABR in f