alistair23-linux/arch/arm64
Pavel Labath fdfeff0f9e arm64: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact watchpoint addresses
Arm64 hardware does not always report a watchpoint hit address that
matches one of the watchpoints set. It can also report an address
"near" the watchpoint if a single instruction access both watched and
unwatched addresses. There is no straight-forward way, short of
disassembling the offending instruction, to map that address back to
the watchpoint.

Previously, when the hardware reported a watchpoint hit on an address
that did not match our watchpoint (this happens in case of instructions
which access large chunks of memory such as "stp") the process would
enter a loop where we would be continually resuming it (because we did
not recognise that watchpoint hit) and it would keep hitting the
watchpoint again and again. The tracing process would never get
notified of the watchpoint hit.

This commit fixes the problem by looking at the watchpoints near the
address reported by the hardware. If the address does not exactly match
one of the watchpoints we have set, it attributes the hit to the
nearest watchpoint we have.  This heuristic is a bit dodgy, but I don't
think we can do much more, given the hardware limitations.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Labath <labath@google.com>
[panand: reworked to rebase on his patches]
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
[will: use __ffs instead of ffs - 1]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-11-18 17:25:50 +00:00
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boot Correct regulator handling on Rockchip arm64 boards to make 2016-10-29 11:09:37 -07:00
configs ZTE arm64 defconfig updates for 4.9: 2016-09-19 22:35:21 +02:00
crypto crypto: arm64/aes-ctr - fix NULL dereference in tail processing 2016-09-13 18:44:59 +08:00
include arm64: Allow hw watchpoint at varied offset from base address 2016-11-18 17:23:17 +00:00
kernel arm64: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact watchpoint addresses 2016-11-18 17:25:50 +00:00
kvm KVM updates for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-06 10:49:01 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus 2016-10-14 20:42:44 -04:00
mm arm64/numa: fix incorrect log for memory-less node 2016-10-26 18:21:51 +01:00
net arm64: bpf: optimize LD_ABS, LD_IND 2016-06-10 23:11:50 -07:00
xen arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall 2016-07-06 10:42:14 +01:00
Kconfig arm64: kaslr: keep modules close to the kernel when DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y 2016-10-17 16:24:02 +01:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: always enable DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option 2016-08-26 10:13:41 +01:00
Kconfig.platforms arm64: uniphier: select ARCH_HAS_RESET_CONTROLLER 2016-10-22 18:25:52 +09:00
Makefile arm64: kernel: force ET_DYN ELF type for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y 2016-10-20 11:37:25 +01:00