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Re: [PATCH v7 09/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, HW assisted debug support

From: Will Deacon <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-03 09:23:53
Also in: kvm, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, lkml

Hi Alex,

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 02:50:33PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
Are you happy with this?:
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+/**
+ * kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension
+ *
+ * We currently assume that the number of HW registers is uniform
+ * across all CPUs (see cpuinfo_sanity_check).
+ */
 int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext)
 {
        int r;
@@ -64,6 +71,12 @@ int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext)
        case KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT:
                r = cpu_has_32bit_el1();
                break;
+       case KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_BPS:
+               r = hw_breakpoint_slots(TYPE_INST);
+               break;
+       case KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_WPS:
+               r  = hw_breakpoint_slots(TYPE_DATA);
+               break;
Whilst I much prefer this code, it actually adds an unwanted dependency
on PERF_EVENTS that I didn't think about to start with. Sorry to keep
messing you about -- I guess your original patch is the best thing after
all.

Will
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