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From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit] Fix broken watchpoints (Re: [patch-ppc] Hardware 	watchpoint support for 44x/BookE-based systems)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218565770.5813.27.camel@gargoyle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808121823.m7CINwv1010170@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

Stupid typo.

Thanks for fixing this.

Luis
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:23 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
> 
> > 	* ppc-linux-nat.c: Include "auxv.h" and "elf/common.h".
> > 	Define PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE.	
> > 	(ppc_linux_get_hwcap): New function.
> > 	(ppc_linux_region_ok_for_hw_watchpoint): Handle PowerPC 440
> > 	4-bytes alignment restrictions.
> > 	(ppc_linux_insert_watchpoint): Handle PowerPC 440-specific
> > 	positioning of the read/write flags.
> > 	(ppc_linux_watchpoint_addr_within_range): Handle PowerPC 440
> > 	4-bytes alignment.
> 
> unfortunately this patch completely broke watchpoint support for me on Cell.
> The reason is that this routine:
> 
> >+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP entry from the aux vector.  */
> >+unsigned long ppc_linux_get_hwcap (void)
> >+{
> >+  CORE_ADDR field;
> >+
> >+  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_PLATFORM, &field))
> >+    return (unsigned long) field;
> 
> really needs to fetch AT_HWCAP, *not* AT_PLATFORM (which is a string).
> 
> Fixed by the patch below.  Tested on powerpc-linux and powerpc64-linux
> (on Cell/B.E.), checked into mainline.
> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* ppc-linux-nat.c (ppc_linux_get_hwcap): Really get AT_HWCAP.
> 
> 
> diff -urNp gdb-orig/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c gdb-head/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
> --- gdb-orig/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c	2008-08-12 19:13:15.793562000 +0200
> +++ gdb-head/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c	2008-08-12 19:49:17.363981345 +0200
> @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ unsigned long ppc_linux_get_hwcap (void)
>  {
>    CORE_ADDR field;
> 
> -  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_PLATFORM, &field))
> +  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_HWCAP, &field))
>      return (unsigned long) field;
> 
>    return 0;
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 19:57 [patch-ppc] Hardware watchpoint support for 44x/BookE-based systems Luis Machado
2008-08-06 17:29 ` Kevin Buettner
2008-08-06 17:40 ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-06 17:44   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-06 18:17     ` Luis Machado
2008-08-06 19:43       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-08 15:32         ` Luis Machado
2008-08-12 18:24 ` [commit] Fix broken watchpoints (Re: [patch-ppc] Hardware watchpoint support for 44x/BookE-based systems) Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-12 18:30   ` Luis Machado [this message]

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