commit 5aae8a53708025d4e718f0d2e7c2f766779ddc71
author K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tue Jun 15 11:35:19 2010 +0530
committer Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tue Jun 22 19:40:50 2010 +1000
tree d151e2c29e78248cee620cf5094a15316abd17d2
parent f7136c5150c29846d7a1d09109449d96b2f63445

powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors

Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors.  This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.

This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace.  When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.

[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
  per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
  arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 9d255b4..cbf3521 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -462,8 +463,14 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
 	switch_booke_debug_regs(&new->thread);
 #else
+/*
+ * For PPC_BOOK3S_64, we use the hw-breakpoint interfaces that would
+ * schedule DABR
+ */
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 	if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(current_dabr) != new->thread.dabr))
 		set_dabr(new->thread.dabr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
 #endif
 
 
@@ -642,7 +649,11 @@
 {
 	discard_lazy_cpu_state();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
+	flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(current);
+#else /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
 	set_debug_reg_defaults(&current->thread);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
 }
 
 void
@@ -660,6 +671,9 @@
 	flush_altivec_to_thread(current);
 	flush_vsx_to_thread(current);
 	flush_spe_to_thread(current);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+	flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
 }
 
 /*