linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: Fix data-breakpoint

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:20:38 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, npiggin@...il.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: Fix data-breakpoint

Thanks Michael,

On Tuesday 22 November 2016 05:03 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> Xmon data-breakpoint feature is broken.
>>
>> Whenever there is a watchpoint match occurs, hw_breakpoint_handler will
>> be called by do_break via notifier chains mechanism. If watchpoint is
>> registered by xmon, hw_breakpoint_handler won't find any associated
>> perf_event and returns immediately with NOTIFY_STOP. Similarly, do_break
>> also returns without notifying to xmon.
>>
>> Solve this by returning NOTIFY_DONE when hw_breakpoint_handler does not
>> find any perf_event associated with matched watchpoint.
> .. rather than NOTIFY_STOP, which tells the core code to continue
> calling the other breakpoint handlers including the xmon one.
>
> Right?

Yes.

> Also any idea when we broke this?

Hmm, not sure exactly. The code is same since it was merged in 2010 when
support for hw_breakpoint was added for server processor.

-Ravi

> cheers
>