[RFC 0/8] arm64/hw_breakpoint: Enable FEAT_Debugv8p9

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Apr 15 20:54:17 PDT 2024


On 4/5/24 13:30, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This series enables FEAT_Debugv8p9 thus extending breakpoint and watchpoint
> support upto 64. This has been lightly tested and still work is in progress
> but would like to get some early feedback on the approach.
> 
> Possible impact of context switches while tracing kernel addresses needs to
> be evaluated regarding MDSELR_EL1 access. This series is based on v6.9-rc2.
> 
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: kvmarm at lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> 
> Anshuman Khandual (8):
>   arm64/sysreg: Add register fields for MDSELR_EL1
>   arm64/sysreg: Add register fields for HDFGRTR2_EL2
>   arm64/sysreg: Add register fields for HDFGWTR2_EL2
>   arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1 register

Since the above patches add and update register definitions related to
HW breakpoints, and have already been reviewed by Mark, will send them
independently.



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