Re: ping: [patch] aarch64: PR 19806: watchpoints: false negatives + PR 20207 contiguous ones

Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-20T15:54:32Z

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:49:39 +0100
>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 25c404bfc37..38043c4ff2e 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ SH-5/SH64 ELF sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh*
> SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux*
> SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd*
>
> +* Aarch64/Linux hardware watchpoints improvements
> +
> + Hardware watchpoints on unaligned addresses are now properly
> + supported when running Linux kernel 4.10 or higher: read and access
> + watchpoints are no longer spuriously missed, and all watchpoints
> + lengths between 1 and 8 bytes are supported. On older kernels,
> + watchpoints set on unaligned addresses are no longer missed, with
> + the tradeoff that there is a possibility of false hits being
> + reported.

I wonder whether we need this NEWS entry. We don't normally call out
bugfixes there, do we?

Thanks.