From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 107737 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2018 15:54:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 107698 invoked by uid 89); 20 Apr 2018 15:54:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-24.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_0,GIT_PATCH_1,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=U*gdb-patches, gdbpatchessourcewareorg, sk:gdb-pat, gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:54:31 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9YMk-0008MG-Ew for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:54:29 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9YMk-0008M9-Aq; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:54:26 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3448 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f9YMj-000647-R2; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:54:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:54:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83po2tyiu0.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Pedro Alves CC: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, qiyaoltc@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <1e06eb53-60f4-0800-a4f6-458e02f840bd@redhat.com> (message from Pedro Alves on Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:49:39 +0100) Subject: Re: ping: [patch] aarch64: PR 19806: watchpoints: false negatives + PR 20207 contiguous ones Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20170327210753.GA29656@host1.jankratochvil.net> <20171018195237.GA19714@host1.jankratochvil.net> <867evczxik.fsf@gmail.com> <20171103220437.GA13979@host1.jankratochvil.net> <20180321190316.GA32598@host1.jankratochvil.net> <1e06eb53-60f4-0800-a4f6-458e02f840bd@redhat.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00407.txt.bz2 > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > From: Pedro Alves > 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.