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2014-02-10ARM: 7948/1: hw_breakpoint: Add ARMv8 supportChristopher Covington
Add the trivial support necessary to get hardware breakpoints working for GDB on ARMv8 simulators running in AArch32 mode. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-01-10ARM: hw_breakpoint: Check function for OS Save and Restore mechanismDietmar Eggemann
v7 debug introduced OS Save and Restore mechanism. On a v7 debug SinglePower system, i.e a system without a separate core and debug power domain, which does not support external debug over powerdown, it is implementation defined whether OS Save and Restore is implemented. v7.1 debug requires OS Save and Restore mechanism. v6 debug and v6.1 debug do not implement it. A new global variable bool has_ossr is introduced and is determined in arch_hw_breakpoint_init() like debug_arch or the number of BRPs/WRPs. The logic how to check if OS Save and Restore is supported has changed with this patch. In reset_ctrl_regs() a mask consisting of OSLM[1] (OSLSR.3) and OSLM[0] (OSLSR.0) was used to check if the system supports OS Save and Restore. In the new function core_has_os_save_restore() only OSLM[0] is used. It is not necessary to check OSLM[1] too since it is v7.1 debug specific and v7.1 debug requires OS Save and Restore and thus OS Lock. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2012-11-09ARM: hw_breakpoint: use CRn as argument for debug reg accessor macrosDietmar Eggemann
The coprocessor register CRn for accesses to the debug register can be a different one than C0. Take this into account for the ARM_DBG_READ and the ARM_DBG_WRITE macro. The inline assembler calls which used a coprocessor register CRn other than C0 are replaced by the ARM_DBG_READ or ARM_DBG_WRITE macro. Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2011-08-31ARM: hw_breakpoint: add support for multiple watchpointsWill Deacon
ARM debug architecture 7.1 mandates that the DFAR is updated on a watchpoint debug exception to contain the faulting virtual address of the memory access. This allows us to determine which watchpoints have fired and therefore report useful information to userspace. This patch adds support for using the DFAR in the watchpoint handler, which allows us to support multiple watchpoints on CPUs implementing the new debug architecture. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2011-08-31ARM: hw_breakpoint: add initial Cortex-A15 (debug v7.1) supportWill Deacon
This patch adds initial support for Cortex-A15 (debug architecture v7.1) to the hw_breakpoint ARM backend. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2010-12-06ARM: hw_breakpoint: unify single-stepping code for watchpoints and breakpointsWill Deacon
The single-stepping code is currently different depending on whether we are stepping over a breakpoint or a watchpoint. There is no good reason for this, so let's sort it out. This patch adds functions for enabling/disabling single-step for a particular hw_breakpoint and integrates this with the exception handling code. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2010-12-06ARM: hw_breakpoint: do not allocate new breakpoints with preemption disabledWill Deacon
The watchpoint single-stepping code calls register_user_hw_breakpoint to register a mismatch breakpoint for stepping over the watchpoint. This is performed with preemption disabled, which is unsafe as we may end up scheduling whilst in_atomic(). Furthermore, using the perf API is rather overkill since we are already in the hw-breakpoint backend and only require access to reserved breakpoints anyway. This patch reworks the watchpoint stepping code so that we don't require another perf_event for the mismatch breakpoint. Instead, we hold a separate arch_hw_breakpoint_ctrl struct inside the watchpoint which is used exclusively for stepping. We can check whether or not stepping is enabled when installing or uninstalling the watchpoint and operate on the breakpoint accordingly. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2010-09-08ARM: 6357/1: hw-breakpoint: add new ptrace requests for hw-breakpoint ↵Will Deacon
interaction For debuggers to take advantage of the hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel, it is necessary to expose the API calls via a ptrace interface. This patch exposes the hardware breakpoints framework as a collection of virtual registers, accesible using PTRACE_SETHBPREGS and PTRACE_GETHBPREGS requests. The breakpoints are stored in the debug_info struct of the running thread. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-09-08ARM: 6356/1: hw-breakpoint: add ARM backend for the hw-breakpoint frameworkWill Deacon
The hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel requires architecture-specific support in order to install, remove, validate and manage hardware breakpoints. This patch adds initial support for this framework to the ARM architecture, but restricts the number of watchpoints to a single resource to get around the fact that the Data Fault Address Register is unknown when a watchpoint debug exception is taken. On cores with v7 debug, the Kernel can handle breakpoint and watchpoint exceptions occuring from userspace. Older cores require clients to handle the exception themselves by registering an appropriate overflow handler or, in the case of ptrace, handling the raised SIGTRAP. The memory-mapped extended debug interface is unsupported due to its unreliability in real implementations. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>