52 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
K.Prasad
62edab9056 hw-breakpoints: reset bits in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled
This patch resets the bit in dr6 after the corresponding exception is
handled in code, so that we keep a clean track of the current virtual debug
status register.

[ Impact: keep track of breakpoints triggering completion ]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:47:00 +02:00
K.Prasad
0067f12972 hw-breakpoints: x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces
This patch introduces the arch-specific implementation of the generic
hardware breakpoints in kernel/hw_breakpoint.c inside x86 specific directories.
It contains functions which help to validate and serve requests using
Hardware Breakpoint registers on x86 processors.

[ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:58 +02:00