Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Powerpc/Watchpoint: Few important fixes

From: Ravi Bangoria
Date: Thu Nov 07 2019 - 09:31:08 EST




On 10/29/19 7:31 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:


Le 29/10/2019 Ã 05:54, Ravi Bangoria a ÃcritÂ:


On 10/17/19 3:01 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
v5: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-October/198069.html

v5->v6:
 - patch 6/7: mpe reported that the perf-hwbreak.c doesn't compile with older
ÂÂÂ gcc:
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ perf-hwbreak.c:182:2: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ temp16 = *((__u16 *)target);
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^
ÂÂÂ Fixed that.


Hi Christophe, Are you ok with the series wrt 8xx?

Yes it looks ok on my 885:

root@vgoip:~# ./ptrace-hwbreak
test: ptrace-hwbreak
tags: git_version:v5.4-rc4-835-gb235e63aa9f0-dirty
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, WO, len: 1: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, WO, len: 2: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, WO, len: 4: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, WO, len: 8: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RO, len: 1: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RO, len: 2: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RO, len: 4: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RO, len: 8: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RW, len: 1: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RW, len: 2: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RW, len: 4: Ok
PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG, RW, len: 8: Ok
PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, WO, len: 1: Ok
PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, RO, len: 1: Ok
PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG, MODE_EXACT, RW, len: 1: Ok
success: ptrace-hwbreak

Also ok on book3s/32:

mpe, Can you please pull the series.

Ravi