[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Add length setting to set_dawr

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Fri Jan 25 12:02:58 EST 2013


Currently we set the length field in the DAWR to 0 which defaults it to one
double word (64bits) which is the same as the DABR.

Change this so that we can set it to longer values as supported by the DAWR.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index bccc81b..f49a05f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static inline int set_dabr(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 
 static inline int set_dawr(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 {
-	unsigned long dawr, dawrx;
+	unsigned long dawr, dawrx, mrd;
 
 	dawr = brk->address;
 
@@ -430,6 +430,14 @@ static inline int set_dawr(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 		                   << (63 - 59); //* translate */
 	dawrx |= (brk->type & (HW_BRK_TYPE_PRIV_ALL)) \
 		                   >> 3; //* PRIM bits */
+	/* dawr length is stored in field MDR bits 48:53.  Matches range in
+	   doublewords (64 bits) baised by -1 eg. 0b000000=1DW and
+	   0b111111=64DW.
+	   brk->len is in bytes.
+	   This aligns up to double word size, shifts and does the bias.
+	*/
+	mrd = ((brk->len + 7) >> 3) - 1;
+	dawrx |= (mrd & 0x3f) << (63 - 53);
 
 	if (ppc_md.set_dawr)
 		return ppc_md.set_dawr(dawr, dawrx);
-- 
1.7.10.4



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