Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Pratyush Anand <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/4] hw_breakpoint: Allow watchpoint of length 3,5,6 and 7 | Date | Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:28:03 +0530 |
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We only support breakpoint/watchpoint of length 1, 2, 4 and 8. If we can support other length as well, then user may watch more data with less number of watchpoints (provided hardware supports it). For example: if we have to watch only 4th, 5th and 6th byte from a 64 bit aligned address, we will have to use two slots to implement it currently. One slot will watch a half word at offset 4 and other a byte at offset 6. If we can have a watchpoint of length 3 then we can watch it with single slot as well.
ARM64 hardware does support such functionality, therefore adding these new definitions in generic layer.
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> --- include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h | 4 ++++ tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h index b04000a2296a..2b65efd19a46 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h @@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ enum { HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_1 = 1, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_2 = 2, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_3 = 3, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4 = 4, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_5 = 5, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_6 = 6, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_7 = 7, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8 = 8, }; diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h index b04000a2296a..2b65efd19a46 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h @@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ enum { HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_1 = 1, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_2 = 2, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_3 = 3, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4 = 4, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_5 = 5, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_6 = 6, + HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_7 = 7, HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8 = 8, }; -- 2.7.4
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