[PATCH 2/7] KVM: arm: guest debug, define API headers

Alex Bennée alex.bennee at linaro.org
Wed Nov 26 05:13:25 PST 2014


Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> writes:

> On 25/11/2014 18:13, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 25 November 2014 at 17:05, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> > So there is no register that says "this breakpoint has triggered" or
>>> > "this watchpoint has triggered"?
>> Nope. You take a debug exception; the syndrome register tells
>> you if it was a bp or a wp, and if it was a wp the fault address
>> register tells you the address being accessed (if it was a bp
>> you know the program counter, obviously). The debugger is expected
>> to be able to figure it out from there, if it cares.
>
> That's already good enough---do the KVM_DEBUG_EXIT_* constants match the
> syndrome register, or if not why?

No they don't. I did consider it at the time but I was wary of pulling
too much over into the uapi headers wholesale. If your happy to do that
I'll include the change in my next version.

I could also rationalise the exit handlers as they all pretty much do
the same thing (save for the exit/syndrome related info). Again I was
keeping things nicely separated in case any particular exception needed
excessive special case handling.

Would you like those changes?

>
> Paolo

-- 
Alex Bennée



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