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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 09/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, HW assisted debug support
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:48:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702084847.GB3418@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435775343-20034-10-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Hi Alex,

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Alex Benn?e wrote:
> This adds support for userspace to control the HW debug registers for
> guest debug. In the debug ioctl we copy an IMPDEF registers into a new
> register set called host_debug_state.
> 
> We use the recently introduced vcpu parameter debug_ptr to select which
> register set is copied into the real registers when world switch occurs.
> 
> I've made some helper functions from hw_breakpoint.c more widely
> available for re-use.
> 
> As with single step we need to tweak the guest registers to enable the
> exceptions so we need to save and restore those bits.
> 
> Two new capabilities have been added to the KVM_EXTENSION ioctl to allow
> userspace to query the number of hardware break and watch points
> available on the host hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Benn?e <alex.bennee@linaro•org>
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro•org>

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> index e7d934d..ac07f2a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ static int core_num_brps;
>  static int core_num_wrps;
> 
>  /* Determine number of BRP registers available. */
> -static int get_num_brps(void)
> +int get_num_brps(void)
>  {
>         return ((read_cpuid(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1) >> 12) & 0xf) + 1;
>  }
> 
>  /* Determine number of WRP registers available. */
> -static int get_num_wrps(void)
> +int get_num_wrps(void)
>  {
>         return ((read_cpuid(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1) >> 20) & 0xf) + 1;
>  }

Sorry, just noticed this, but we already have a public interface for
figuring these numbers out as required by perf. Can't you use
hw_breakpoint_slots(...) instead of exposing these internal helpers?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 18:28 [PATCH v7 00/11] KVM Guest Debug support for arm64 Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] KVM: add comments for kvm_debug_exit_arch struct Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, define API headers Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] KVM: arm: guest debug, add stub KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG ioctl Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] KVM: arm: introduce kvm_arm_init/setup/clear_debug Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, add SW break point support Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, add support for single-step Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] KVM: arm64: re-factor hyp.S debug register code Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:29 ` [PATCH v7 08/11] KVM: arm64: introduce vcpu->arch.debug_ptr Alex Bennée
2015-07-02 18:34   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-07-03  7:14     ` Alex Bennée
2015-07-03 21:46       ` Christoffer Dall
2015-07-03 21:43   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-07-01 18:29 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, HW assisted debug support Alex Bennée
2015-07-02  8:48   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2015-07-02 13:50     ` Alex Bennée
2015-07-03  9:23       ` Will Deacon
2015-07-03 16:07         ` Alex Bennée
2015-07-06  8:51           ` Will Deacon
2015-07-06  9:02             ` Alex Bennée
2015-07-06  9:31             ` Christoffer Dall
2015-07-01 18:29 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] KVM: arm64: enable KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG Alex Bennée
2015-07-01 18:29 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] KVM: arm64: add trace points for guest_debug debug Alex Bennée

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