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

Yao Qi
2015-09-15T14:02:07Z

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.

> 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.

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Yao (齐尧)