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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org>
Cc: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v3] [AArch64] Support tagged pointer
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <061e956c-72a7-2c2e-512b-3dfe42881818@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANW4E-2WYx+_-Ljm6d2pEJC9b3H_=pM_sZANDSpEwL3pcUjMaw@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/11/2018 12:59 PM, Omair Javaid wrote:

> Yes I can submit a patch that enables set_gdbarch_significant_addr_bit for aarch64-linux-tdep only.
> 
> But a point to discuss here is the use-case where some people use *-linux-gdb for debugging seamlessly between kernel and user-space.
> 
> There can be ways we can distinguish between user/kernel address space and clear or set top byte of the address even in case of linux targets.
> 
> Does this sound something we should do? 

Yeah, why not.  

What are the pending kernel debugging patches using to distinguish
userspace and kernel debugging modes?  Off hand, I'd think we'd want to
make those separate ABIs / osabis / gdbarchs.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-11 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-08 10:04 Yao Qi
2017-12-08 10:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] Clear non-significant bits of address in watchpoint Yao Qi
2017-12-08 12:23   ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-08 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] Clear non-significant bits of address on memory access Yao Qi
2017-12-08 12:22   ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-08 15:13     ` Ulrich Weigand
2017-12-08 15:36       ` Yao Qi
2017-12-19 13:50   ` Ulrich Weigand
2017-12-19 15:41     ` Yao Qi
2017-12-19 16:15       ` Ulrich Weigand
2017-12-20  9:57         ` Yao Qi
2017-12-20 13:03           ` [pushed] Fix Cell/B.E. regression (Re: [PATCH 1/3] Clear non-significant bits of address on memory access) Ulrich Weigand
2017-12-20 13:59             ` Yao Qi
2017-12-08 10:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] Adjust breakpoint address by clearing non-significant bits Yao Qi
2017-12-08 12:22   ` Pedro Alves
2017-12-08 12:24 ` [PATCH 0/3 v3] [AArch64] Support tagged pointer Pedro Alves
2017-12-08 17:31 ` Yao Qi
2018-04-11  0:16   ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-11  0:37     ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-11  2:46       ` Simon Marchi
2018-04-11 10:14     ` Pedro Alves
2018-04-11 11:13       ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-11 11:19         ` Pedro Alves
2018-04-11 12:01           ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-11 18:27             ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2018-04-16  1:36               ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-16 22:57                 ` Pedro Alves
2018-04-20 14:34                   ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-20 16:13                     ` Daniel Thompson
2018-04-23  7:50                       ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-24 11:39                         ` Pedro Alves
2018-04-24 15:44                           ` Daniel Thompson
2018-04-24 11:48                     ` Pedro Alves
2018-04-24 16:05                       ` Daniel Thompson
2018-04-24 23:42                         ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-25  0:09                           ` Andrew Pinski
2018-04-25  8:04                           ` Daniel Thompson
2018-04-26  8:11                             ` Omair Javaid
2018-04-27 16:29                               ` Daniel Thompson
2018-04-30 13:42                                 ` Omair Javaid

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