Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2010-07-30

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE

From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Date: 2010-07-28 15:41:03

On 07/28/2010 04:18 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
kgdb_handle_breakpoint checks the first arch_kgdb_breakpoint
which is not known by gdb that's why is necessary jump over
it. The jump lenght is equal to BREAK_INSTR_SIZE that's
why is cleaner to use defined macro instead of hardcoded
non-described offset.

  
Seems fine to me.  I'll add this to the kgdb merge queue for 2.6.36.

Jason.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
CC: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index 82a7b22..7f61a3a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (*(u32 *) (regs->nip) == *(u32 *) (&arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr))
-		regs->nip += 4;
+		regs->nip += BREAK_INSTR_SIZE;
 
 	return 1;
 }
  
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