[Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-07-26 Thread K.Prasad
Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a new CPU during initialisation. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad --- arch/powerpc/ke

Re: [Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-06-18 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:14:20PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:38:18PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: [snip] > > > @@ -254,8 +255,10 @@ void do_dabr(struct pt_regs *regs, unsig > > > 11, SIGSEGV) ==

Re: [Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-06-18 Thread K.Prasad
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:14:20PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:38:18PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > > Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during > > copy > > and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a > > process's

Re: [Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-06-16 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:38:18PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy > and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a > process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a > new CPU dur

[Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-06-10 Thread K.Prasad
Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a new CPU during initialisation. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad --- arch/powerpc/ke

[Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-06-03 Thread K.Prasad
Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a new CPU during initialisation. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad --- arch/powerpc/in

Re: [Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-05-28 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:46:50AM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy > and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a > process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a > new CPU dur

[Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-05-24 Thread K.Prasad
Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a new CPU during initialisation. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad --- arch/powerpc/in

[RFC Patch 4/6] Modify process and processor handling code to recognise hardware debug registers

2009-05-21 Thread K.Prasad
Modify process handling code to recognise hardware debug registers during copy and flush operations. Introduce a new TIF_DEBUG task flag to indicate a process's use of debug register. Load the debug register values into a new CPU during initialisation. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad --- arch/powerpc/in