[PATCH] arm64/hw_breakpoint: Determine lengths from generic perf breakpoint macros

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Feb 27 01:39:51 PST 2024



On 2/27/24 14:35, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:01:54AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> On 2/26/24 16:34, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> I don't think this needs to change, and can be left as-is.
>>
>> Fair enough, but just wondering how about deriving len_in_bytes from
>> hweight_long(ARM_BREAKPOINT_LEN_*) instead ? This also drops the hard
>> coding using the platform macros itself, without going to user ABI.
> 
> Please leave this code alone. It's fine like it is and there are plenty of
> other things that would actually benefit from your attention. The BRBE
> series, for example.

Sure, no problem, will drop this patch.



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