[PATCH] powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jul 30 22:26:24 EST 2010
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:18 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> kgdb_handle_breakpoint checks the first arch_kgdb_breakpoint
> which is not known by gdb that's why is necessary jump over
> it. The jump lenght is equal to BREAK_INSTR_SIZE that's
> why is cleaner to use defined macro instead of hardcoded
> non-described offset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu>
> CC: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> index 82a7b22..7f61a3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
> return 0;
>
> if (*(u32 *) (regs->nip) == *(u32 *) (&arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr))
> - regs->nip += 4;
> + regs->nip += BREAK_INSTR_SIZE;
Except to powerpc fokls, who intuitively know what nip + 4 means, but
will have to lookup what BREAK_INSTR_SIZE is to be sure. But I'm being
nit-picky :)
cheers
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