Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] powerpc: Beef up single-stepping/instruction emulation infrastructure

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Ellerman
Michael Neuling writes: > Paulus, > >> This patch series extends the code in arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c so that >> it handles almost all load and store instructions -- all except the >> atomic memory operations (lwat, stwat, etc.).  It also makes sure that >> we use the largest

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] powerpc: Beef up single-stepping/instruction emulation infrastructure

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Neuling
Paulus, > This patch series extends the code in arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c so that > it handles almost all load and store instructions -- all except the > atomic memory operations (lwat, stwat, etc.).  It also makes sure that > we use the largest possible aligned accesses to access memory and that

[PATCH RFC 0/7] powerpc: Beef up single-stepping/instruction emulation infrastructure

2017-08-22 Thread Paul Mackerras
This patch series extends the code in arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c so that it handles almost all load and store instructions -- all except the atomic memory operations (lwat, stwat, etc.). It also makes sure that we use the largest possible aligned accesses to access memory and that we don't access