linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 02/12] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 17:46:12 +0530
From:	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com>,
	maneesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 02/12] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler
	interfaces

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:42:22PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, K.Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Index: kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,367 @@
> > +/*
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > + * (at your option) any later version.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + *
> > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > + * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> > + * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2007 Alan Stern
> > + * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2009
> > + */
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * HW_breakpoint: a unified kernel/user-space hardware breakpoint facility,
> > + * using the CPU's debug registers.
> > + *
> > + * This file contains the arch-independent routines.  It is not meant
> > + * to be compiled as a standalone source file; rather it should be
> > + * #include'd by the arch-specific implementation.
> 
> That's no longer true, right ?
> 
> Regards,
> Bharata.

Correct. The comments are stale and should have been cleaned-up. I will
do the same during the next submission of the patchset.

Thanks,
K.Prasad

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