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

From: Ravi Bangoria
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 05:32:18 EST


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
gcc:
perf-hwbreak.c:182:2: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
temp16 = *((__u16 *)target);
^
Fixed that.

Ravi Bangoria (7):
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Introduce macros for watchpoint length
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Fix length calculation for unaligned target
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Fix ptrace code that muck around with address/len
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Don't ignore extraneous exceptions blindly
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Rewrite ptrace-hwbreak.c selftest
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Add dar outside test in perf-hwbreak.c selftest
Powerpc/Watchpoint: Support for 8xx in ptrace-hwbreak.c selftest

arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 9 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/dawr.c | 6 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 119 ++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 16 +-
arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 2 +-
.../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/perf-hwbreak.c | 119 +++-
.../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c | 581 +++++++++++-------
8 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 265 deletions(-)

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