linux/arch/powerpc
K.Prasad 5aae8a5370 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>
2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
..
boot Merge commit 'kumar/next' into next 2010-05-31 10:01:50 +10:00
configs Merge commit 'jwb/next' into next 2010-05-31 09:59:00 +10:00
include/asm powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors 2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
kernel powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors 2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
kvm KVM: powerpc: fix init/exit annotation 2010-06-09 18:39:09 +03:00
lib powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors 2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2010-05-21 17:16:21 -07:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: fix potential buffer overrun in op_model_cell.c 2010-06-07 11:18:56 +02:00
platforms powerpc/cell: Fix integer constant warning 2010-06-02 17:50:37 +10:00
sysdev of/powerpc: fix fsl_msi device node pointer 2010-06-02 22:26:42 -06:00
xmon powerpc: Mark some variables in the page fault path __read_mostly 2010-02-03 17:39:48 +11:00
Kconfig powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors 2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/cpumask: Add DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS option 2010-05-06 18:05:26 +10:00
Makefile kbuild: move -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm to powerpc only 2010-02-05 23:21:18 +01:00
relocs_check.pl