Re: [Patch, microblaze]: Communicate in larger blocks with the target.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 06/17/2014 05:49 PM, Ajit Kumar Agarwal wrote:
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> From: Pedro Alves [mailto:palves@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:05 PM
> To: Pedro Alves; Ajit Kumar Agarwal; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Cc: Michael Eager; Vinod Kathail; Vidhumouli Hunsigida; Nagaraju Mekala
> Subject: Re: [Patch, microblaze]: Communicate in larger blocks with the target.
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> On 06/17/2014 02:49 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 06/17/2014 10:03 AM, Ajit Kumar Agarwal wrote:
>>> Please find the following patch.    
>>>
>>>  [Patch, microblaze]: Communicate in larger blocks with the target.
>>>     
>>>     Communicate in larger blocks with the target. The chunk of memory
>>>     will be read from the target and then used in microblaze_analyze_prologue.
>>>     The above process minimizes the transaction with the Debug Agent.
>>
>> We have core infrustructure for this now, in the form of a code cache 
>> that reads ahead.  Could you try using it?
>> All you have to do is replace target_read_memory calls that are 
>> actually reading code, with target_read_code calls.  See i386-tdep.c 
>> for example.
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>>> To be clear, I'm not talking about changing the new calls in your patch, but instead, to change the existing calls.  Then your patch won't be necessary.
> 
> Thanks Pedro !!.  Would you mind explaining this in detail.

See 0865b04a4dec8a458bee54081b5598a6268b0724.

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Pedro Alves