Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support tracepoints and software breakpoints on ARM aarch32-linux in GDBServer.

Antoine Tremblay
2015-09-15T14:08:10Z

On 09/15/2015 10:01 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> Antoine Tremblay <antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com> writes:
>
>> Yes I could separate the two, my main reason to go with them both was
>> that I could not test the breakpoints if I did not have software
>> single step.
>>
>> I'll separate them.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>>>>
>>>> This patchset teaches this to GDBServer and enables support for
>>>> tracepoints and
>>>> software breakpoints.
>>>
>>> Support tracepoint on ARM (with software single step in GDBserver side)
>>> can be the third part.
>>
>> This is already a separate patch, namely 7/7.
>>
>
> Patch 7/7 does more than supporting tracepoint. Tracepoint support
> should be done in one patch, and this patch is only about tracepoint support.
>

Right I can separate the software breakpoint.

>> Did you meant to create a patchset for it ?
>>
>> I guess I could separate the patch in maybe 2 or 3 but isn't it better
>> to keep it inside the patchset otherwise we will have to sync 3
>> patchsets versions since they depend on each other ?
>
> How about starting from software breakpoint on ARM-linux GDBserver? It
> doesn't depends on tracepoints. After this patch set is reviewed and
> committed, you can post tracepoint patch set.
>

Alright that can be done.