Re: [PATCH V2] arm64/hw_breakpoint: Directly use ESR_ELx_WNR for an watchpoint exception

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 06:01:21 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:04:31PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Let's use existing ISS encoding for an watchpoint exception i.e ESR_ELx_WNR
> This represents an instruction's either writing to or reading from a memory
> location during an watchpoint exception. While here this drops non-standard
> macro AARCH64_ESR_ACCESS_MASK.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

This looks like a sensible cleanup, so:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Mark.

> ---
> This applies on v6.8-rc5
>
> Changes in V2:
>
> - Dropped new ISS encoding details ESR_ELx_WnR and ESR_ELx_WnR_SHIFT
> - Directly used existing ESR_ELx_WNR per Catalin
> - Updated the commit message as required
>
> Changes in V1:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223094615.3977323-1-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx/
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 1 -
> arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> index 84055329cd8b..bd81cf17744a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static inline void decode_ctrl_reg(u32 reg,
> /* Watchpoints */
> #define ARM_BREAKPOINT_LOAD 1
> #define ARM_BREAKPOINT_STORE 2
> -#define AARCH64_ESR_ACCESS_MASK (1 << 6)
>
> /* Lengths */
> #define ARM_BREAKPOINT_LEN_1 0x1
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> index 35225632d70a..2f5755192c2b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>
> #include <asm/current.h>
> #include <asm/debug-monitors.h>
> +#include <asm/esr.h>
> #include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
> #include <asm/traps.h>
> #include <asm/cputype.h>
> @@ -779,7 +780,7 @@ static int watchpoint_handler(unsigned long addr, unsigned long esr,
> * Check that the access type matches.
> * 0 => load, otherwise => store
> */
> - access = (esr & AARCH64_ESR_ACCESS_MASK) ? HW_BREAKPOINT_W :
> + access = (esr & ESR_ELx_WNR) ? HW_BREAKPOINT_W :
> HW_BREAKPOINT_R;
> if (!(access & hw_breakpoint_type(wp)))
> continue;
> --
> 2.25.1
>