linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Add ARMv8 support

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:38:51 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Add ARMv8 support

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:26:23PM +0000, Christopher Covington wrote:
> Add the trivial support necessary to get hardware breakpoints
> working for GDB on ARMv8 simulators running in AArch32 mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
> ---
> 
>  v2: modify debug_exception_updates_fsr
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c      | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> index eef55ea..8e427c7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static inline void decode_ctrl_reg(u32 reg,
>  #define ARM_DEBUG_ARCH_V7_ECP14	3
>  #define ARM_DEBUG_ARCH_V7_MM	4
>  #define ARM_DEBUG_ARCH_V7_1	5
> +#define ARM_DEBUG_ARCH_V8	6
>  
>  /* Breakpoint */
>  #define ARM_BREAKPOINT_EXECUTE	0
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> index 3d44660..a711b27 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int debug_arch_supported(void)
>  /* Can we determine the watchpoint access type from the fsr? */
>  static int debug_exception_updates_fsr(void)
>  {
> -	return 0;
> +	return get_debug_arch() == ARM_DEBUG_ARCH_V8;

I'd probably make that >= to save on future changes.

With that change:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Will
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