Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Add ARMv8 support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 13:39:34 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> 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@xxxxxxx>

Will
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