PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO, PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG and PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG are
PowerPC specific ptrace flags that use the watchpoint register. While they are
targeted primarily towards BookE users, user-space applications such as GDB
have started using them for BookS too. This patch enables the use of generic
hardware breakpoint interfaces for these new flags.
Apart from the usual benefits of using generic hw-breakpoint interfaces, these
changes allow debuggers (such as GDB) to use a common set of ptrace flags for
their watchpoint needs and allow more precise breakpoint specification (length
of the variable can be specified).
Mikey added: rebased and added dbginfo.features around #ifdef
CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Extended ptrace interface
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith.
Add a new extended ptrace interface so that user-space has a single
interface for powerpc, without having to know the specific layout
of the debug registers.
Implement:
PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDEBUGINFO
PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG
PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
