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

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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
@@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ struct debug_entry {
struct debug_info {
int nsaved;
struct debug_entry bp[2];
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
struct perf_event *hbp[ARM_MAX_HBP_SLOTS];
#endif
};
struct thread_struct {