powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors

Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors.  This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.

This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace.  When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.

[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
  per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
  arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
index b0b21134f61..5e2e2cfcc81 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
@@ -517,6 +517,10 @@ static inline int cpu_has_feature(unsigned long feature)
 		& feature);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+#define HBP_NUM 1
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */