[PATCH] powerpc/watchpoint: Don't call dar_within_range() for Book3S

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com
Sun Feb 23 00:16:55 AEDT 2020



On 2/22/20 4:56 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/22/2020 08:20 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>> DAR is set to the first byte of overlap between actual access and
>> watched range at DSI on Book3S processor. But actual access range
>> might or might not be within user asked range. So for Book3S, it
>> must not call dar_within_range().
>>
>> This revert portion of commit 39413ae00967 ("powerpc/hw_breakpoints:
>> Rewrite 8xx breakpoints to allow any address range size.").
>>
>> Before patch:
>>    # ./tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/perf-hwbreak
>>    ...
>>    TESTED: No overlap
>>    FAILED: Partial overlap: 0 != 2
>>    TESTED: Partial overlap
>>    TESTED: No overlap
>>    FAILED: Full overlap: 0 != 2
>>    failure: perf_hwbreak
>>
>> After patch:
>>    TESTED: No overlap
>>    TESTED: Partial overlap
>>    TESTED: Partial overlap
>>    TESTED: No overlap
>>    TESTED: Full overlap
>>    success: perf_hwbreak
>>
>> Fixes: 39413ae00967 ("powerpc/hw_breakpoints: Rewrite 8xx breakpoints to allow any address range size.")
> 
> Oh, this seems to have been introduced by 27985b2a640e ("powerpc/watchpoint: Don't ignore extraneous exceptions blindly").
> 
> I must have lost it through a rebase as we were doing our series approximately at the same time, sorry for that.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

No worries. Thanks for the review :)

Ravi



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