[PATCH 00/15] powerpc/watchpoint: Preparation for more than one watchpoint

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com
Wed Mar 18 23:52:28 AEDT 2020



On 3/16/20 8:35 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 09/03/2020 à 09:57, Ravi Bangoria a écrit :
>> So far, powerpc Book3S code has been written with an assumption of only
>> one watchpoint. But future power architecture is introducing second
>> watchpoint register (DAWR). Even though this patchset does not enable
>> 2nd DAWR, it make the infrastructure ready so that enabling 2nd DAWR
>> should just be a matter of changing count.
> 
> Some book3s (e300 family for instance, I think G2 as well) already have a DABR2 in addition to DABR.
> Will this series allow to use it as well ?

I wasn't aware of that. I'll take a look at their specs and check if they
can piggyback on this series for 2nd DABR.

Thanks,
Ravi



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