Re: questions on CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS, DBCR0_BRT, and DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS
From: Scott Wood <hidden>
Date: 2014-04-22 22:31:53
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 05:43 -0700, shiva7 wrote:
I have the same question as like above posted by Mr. Chirs.
I had to google the subject to find what e-mail you were talking about -- it was posted a year ago: http://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=136572252330650&w=2 Next time please quote the e-mail if you're trying to revive a thread, and keep the original poster on CC. I've quoted it here:
Sorry for the bunch of emails, I'm working on some new stuff and running into issues. For CONFIG_BOOKE it appears that DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS includes DBCR0_ICMP but not DBCR0_BRT. Is that just because none of the code paths currently using DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS need to check DBCR0_BT?
Perhaps it was just an oversight. I've CCed Dave Kleikamp and Torez Smith, who added DBCR0_ACTIVE_EVENTS.
Also, in sys_debug_setcontext() why does SIG_DBG_BRANCH_TRACING return -EINVAL if CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS is set? Would it not be possible to use DBCR0_BRT?
Either nobody has gotten around to implementing it, or the semantics are different in some way (if the semantics are even defined anywhere -- I couldn't find any documentation). -Scott