linux/arch/powerpc/xmon
Anshuman Khandual 1ad7d70562 powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8
This patch enables support for hardware instruction breakpoint in xmon
on POWER8 platform with the help of a new register called the CIABR
(Completed Instruction Address Breakpoint Register). With this patch, a
single hardware instruction breakpoint can be added and cleared during
any active xmon debug session. The hardware based instruction breakpoint
mechanism works correctly with the existing TRAP based instruction
breakpoint available on xmon.

There are no powerpc CPU with CPU_FTR_IABR feature any more. This patch
has re-purposed all the existing IABR related code to work with CIABR
register based HW instruction breakpoint.

This has one odd feature, which is that when we hit a breakpoint xmon
doesn't tell us we have hit the breakpoint. This is because xmon is
expecting bp->address == regs->nip. Because CIABR fires on completition
regs->nip points to the instruction after the breakpoint. We could fix
that, but it would then confuse other parts of the xmon code which think
we need to emulate the instruction. [mpe]

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-02 14:23:04 +11:00
..
ansidecl.h
dis-asm.h [POWERPC] Make xmon disassembly optional 2006-12-04 20:40:32 +11:00
Makefile powerpc: Build kernel with -mcmodel=medium 2013-01-10 17:00:31 +11:00
nonstdio.c powerpc/xmon: avoid format string leaking to printk 2014-06-11 17:04:03 +10:00
nonstdio.h powerpc/xmon: Merge start.c into nonstdio.c 2012-11-15 12:59:46 +11:00
ppc-dis.c [POWERPC] Import updated version of ppc disassembly code for xmon 2006-12-04 20:40:36 +11:00
ppc-opc.c bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users 2012-02-29 17:15:08 -05:00
ppc.h [POWERPC] Import updated version of ppc disassembly code for xmon 2006-12-04 20:40:36 +11:00
spu-dis.c [PATCH] arch/powerpc trivial annotations 2007-02-09 09:14:06 -08:00
spu-insns.h [POWERPC] Import spu disassembly code into xmon 2006-12-04 20:40:29 +11:00
spu-opc.c bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users 2012-02-29 17:15:08 -05:00
spu.h [POWERPC] Import spu disassembly code into xmon 2006-12-04 20:40:29 +11:00
xmon.c powerpc/xmon: Enable HW instruction breakpoint on POWER8 2014-12-02 14:23:04 +11:00