linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] hw-breakpoints: Arbitrate access to pmu following registers constraints

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Message-ID: <20091114133409.GF5245@nowhere>
Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:34:13 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] hw-breakpoints: Arbitrate access to pmu following
	registers constraints

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:00:38AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:54 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > >  - On one embedded core at least we have a case where the core has 4
> > > threads, but the data (4) and instruction (2) breakpoint registers are
> > > shared. The 'enable' bits are split so a given data breakpoint can be
> > > enabled only on some HW threads but that's about it.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if there's a realistic way to handle the later constraint
> > > though other than just not allowing use of the HW breakpoint function on
> > > those cores at all.
> > > 
> > > Ben.
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah this latter one is tricky. Not sure how to handle it either.
> > How are these hw-threads considered by the kernel core? As different
> > cpu? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> So it basically looks like you have 4 data and 2 HW instruction breakpoint
> registers shared by 4 CPUs in a group :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
> 


That's not a simple situation :)
I guess we'll need to let powerpc handle the constraints from the arch.

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