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The breakpoint tests on the ARM 32-bit kernel are broken in several ways. The breakpoint length requested does not necessarily match whether the function address has the Thumb bit (bit 0) set or not, and this does matter to the ARM kernel hw_breakpoint infrastructure. See [1] for background. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/15/205 As Will indicated, the overflow handling would require single-stepping which is not supported at the moment. Just disable those tests for the ARM 32-bit platforms and update the comment above to explain these limitations. Co-developed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203191138.2419-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.