[PATCH v4 21/23] arm64: hw_breakpoint: Allow EL2 breakpoints if running in HYP

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Feb 15 02:22:30 PST 2016


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 06:40:02PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> With VHE, we place kernel {watch,break}-points at EL2 to get things
> like kgdb and "perf -e mem:..." working.
> 
> This requires a bit of repainting in the low-level encore/decode,
> but is otherwise pretty simple.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

To the best of my knowledge, this patch is fine ;)

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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