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ARM: 6357/1: hw-breakpoint: add new ptrace requests for hw-breakpoint interaction

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For debuggers to take advantage of the hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel,
it is necessary to expose the API calls via a ptrace interface.

This patch exposes the hardware breakpoints framework as a collection of
virtual registers, accesible using PTRACE_SETHBPREGS and PTRACE_GETHBPREGS
requests. The breakpoints are stored in the debug_info struct of the running
thread.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Will Deacon
2010-09-03 10:42:55 +01:00
committed by Russell King
parent f81ef4a920
commit 864232fa1a
5 changed files with 261 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/arm/kernel/process.c
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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/leds.h>
@@ -317,6 +318,8 @@ void flush_thread(void)
struct thread_info *thread = current_thread_info();
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
memset(thread->used_cp, 0, sizeof(thread->used_cp));
memset(&tsk->thread.debug, 0, sizeof(struct debug_info));
memset(&thread->fpstate, 0, sizeof(union fp_state));
@@ -345,6 +348,8 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
thread->cpu_context.sp = (unsigned long)childregs;
thread->cpu_context.pc = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork;
clear_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(p);
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
thread->tp_value = regs->ARM_r3;