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authorK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-06-15 11:35:19 +0530
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2010-06-22 19:40:50 +1000
commit5aae8a53708025d4e718f0d2e7c2f766779ddc71 (patch)
treed151e2c29e78248cee620cf5094a15316abd17d2 /arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
parentf7136c5150c29846d7a1d09109449d96b2f63445 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 9d255b4f0a0..cbf3521d50b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -462,8 +463,14 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
switch_booke_debug_regs(&new->thread);
#else
+/*
+ * For PPC_BOOK3S_64, we use the hw-breakpoint interfaces that would
+ * schedule DABR
+ */
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(current_dabr) != new->thread.dabr))
set_dabr(new->thread.dabr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
#endif
@@ -642,7 +649,11 @@ void flush_thread(void)
{
discard_lazy_cpu_state();
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
+ flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(current);
+#else /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
set_debug_reg_defaults(&current->thread);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
}
void
@@ -660,6 +671,9 @@ void prepare_to_copy(struct task_struct *tsk)
flush_altivec_to_thread(current);
flush_vsx_to_thread(current);
flush_spe_to_thread(current);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+ flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
}
/*