52 Commits (39aead8373b3c20bb5965c024dfb51a94e526151)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
K.Prasad	62edab9056	hw-breakpoints: reset bits in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled ... This patch resets the bit in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled in code, so that we keep a clean track of the current virtual debug status register. [ Impact: keep track of breakpoints triggering completion ] Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>	2009-06-02 22:47:00 +02:00
K.Prasad	0067f12972	hw-breakpoints: x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces ... This patch introduces the arch-specific implementation of the generic hardware breakpoints in kernel/hw_breakpoint.c inside x86 specific directories. It contains functions which help to validate and serve requests using Hardware Breakpoint registers on x86 processors. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ] Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>	2009-06-02 22:46:58 +02:00