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Re: [PATCH] disable ptrace BookE interface for PowerPC server processors
On 05/22/2012 02:34 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> But how are you going to handle this when that functionality does
> become available?
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late reply. I was discussing
with the kernel developer responsible for the next version of the ptrace
booke interface and he proposed that the 'features' field from the
struct ppc_debug_info returned by ptrace PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO call
could be used to check if its availability. According to him, this field
is currently 0 for servers, but once the new ptrace interface becomes
functional, it will return the flag PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_RANGE
enabled. Moreover, this change will not affect the behavior on embedded
processors (which already has PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_RANGE and
PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_MASK enabled).
Please consider the new version of the patch below.
Thanks,
--
Edjunior Barbosa Machado
IBM Linux Technology Center
gdb/
2012-25-05 Edjunior Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* ppc-linux-nat.c (have_ptrace_booke_interface): disable ptrace booke
interface for powerpc server processors if not available in kernel.
diff --git a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
index 34c40b4..9ffcf88 100644
--- a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
@@ -1421,17 +1421,18 @@ have_ptrace_booke_interface (void)
/* Check for kernel support for BOOKE debug registers. */
if (ptrace (PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO, tid, 0, &booke_debug_info) >= 0)
{
- have_ptrace_booke_interface = 1;
- max_slots_number = booke_debug_info.num_instruction_bps
- + booke_debug_info.num_data_bps
- + booke_debug_info.num_condition_regs;
- }
- else
- {
- /* Old school interface and no BOOKE debug registers support. */
- have_ptrace_booke_interface = 0;
- memset (&booke_debug_info, 0, sizeof (struct ppc_debug_info));
+ if (booke_debug_info.features)
+ {
+ have_ptrace_booke_interface = 1;
+ max_slots_number = booke_debug_info.num_instruction_bps
+ + booke_debug_info.num_data_bps
+ + booke_debug_info.num_condition_regs;
+ return have_ptrace_booke_interface;
+ }
}
+ /* Old school interface and no BOOKE debug registers support. */
+ have_ptrace_booke_interface = 0;
+ memset (&booke_debug_info, 0, sizeof (struct ppc_debug_info));
}
return have_ptrace_booke_interface;