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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-11 18:55:56 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-05-01 04:32:11 +0200
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tree04c23f88e57c8e804d144434c60b91879e83648d /arch/Kconfig
parentb2812d031dea86926e9c10f7714af33ac2f6b43d (diff)
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hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints
There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware breakpoints. The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example. The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address registers can host either instruction or data address and the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control register. This is the case of x86 and Super H. This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and data breakpoints. The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and instruction breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
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@@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
bool
depends on PERF_EVENTS
+config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
+ bool
+ depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+ help
+ Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
+ some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
+ breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
+ them but define the access type in a control register.
+ Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
+ latter fashion.
+
config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
bool