[PATCH v6 0/7] Powerpc/Watchpoint: Few important fixes

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com
Thu Oct 17 20:31:57 AEDT 2019


v5: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-October/198069.html

v5->v6:
 - patch 6/7: mpe reported that the perf-hwbreak.c doesn't compile with older
   gcc:
        perf-hwbreak.c:182:2: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
        break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
            temp16 = *((__u16 *)target);
            ^
   Fixed that.

Ravi Bangoria (7):
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Introduce macros for watchpoint length
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Fix length calculation for unaligned target
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Fix ptrace code that muck around with address/len
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Don't ignore extraneous exceptions blindly
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Rewrite ptrace-hwbreak.c selftest
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Add dar outside test in perf-hwbreak.c selftest
  Powerpc/Watchpoint: Support for 8xx in ptrace-hwbreak.c selftest

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h      |   9 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/dawr.c                    |   6 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c           | 119 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c                 |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c                  |  16 +-
 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c                      |   2 +-
 .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/perf-hwbreak.c   | 119 +++-
 .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c | 581 +++++++++++-------
 8 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 265 deletions(-)

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