linux/arch/x86
Frederic Weisbecker feef47d0cb hw-breakpoints: Get the number of available registers on boot dynamically
The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance
the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints
through the HBP_NUM macro.

However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get
this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between
different versions.

To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro
and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a
new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have
CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once
as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints
together.
For the others it will be called first to get the number of
instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the
data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a
parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots().

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:14 +02:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-02-28 10:43:53 -08:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ia32 x86: correctly wire up the newuname system call 2010-04-20 09:17:21 -07:00
include/asm hw-breakpoints: Get the number of available registers on boot dynamically 2010-05-01 04:32:14 +02:00
kernel hw-breakpoints: Change/Enforce some breakpoints policies 2010-05-01 04:32:10 +02:00
kvm Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core 2010-04-23 11:10:30 +02:00
lguest lguest: stop using KVM hypercall mechanism 2010-04-14 21:43:56 +09:30
lib perf, x86: Add INSTRUCTION_DECODER config flag 2010-03-10 13:34:12 +01:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05 11:37:28 +09:00
oprofile perf, x86: Undo some some *_counter* -> *_event* renames 2010-04-02 19:52:02 +02:00
pci x86/PCI: compute Address Space length rather than using _LEN 2010-04-28 09:17:45 -07:00
power Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip 2010-04-07 11:02:23 -07:00
tools x86: Remove trailing spaces in messages 2010-02-07 17:47:51 +01:00
vdso include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
video
xen include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Kbuild
Kconfig hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints 2010-05-01 04:32:11 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Makefile x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code 2010-02-16 21:22:26 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00