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Author SHA1 Message Date
Vineet Gupta
4b3ea63f5a ARC: Ignore ptrace SETREGSET request for synthetic register "stop_pc"
commit 5b24282846 upstream.

ARCompact TRAP_S insn used for breakpoints, commits before exception is
taken (updating architectural PC). So ptregs->ret contains next-PC and
not the breakpoint PC itself. This is different from other restartable
exceptions such as TLB Miss where ptregs->ret has exact faulting PC.
gdb needs to know exact-PC hence ARC ptrace GETREGSET provides for
@stop_pc which returns ptregs->ret vs. EFA depending on the
situation.

However, writing stop_pc (SETREGSET request), which updates ptregs->ret
doesn't makes sense stop_pc doesn't always correspond to that reg as
described above.

This was not an issue so far since user_regs->ret / user_regs->stop_pc
had same value and both writing to ptregs->ret was OK, needless, but NOT
broken, hence not observed.

With gdb "jump", they diverge, and user_regs->ret updating ptregs is
overwritten immediately with stop_pc, which this patch fixes.

Reported-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-18 07:45:45 -07:00
Vineet Gupta
547f112571 ARC: ptrace support
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2013-02-15 23:15:59 +05:30
Vineet Gupta
c08098f28e ARC: Last bits (stubs) to get to a running kernel with UART
This was part of port buildup strategy from Arnd to have a minimal kernel
at first and then add optional features (stacktracing, ptrace, smp,
kprobes, oprofile....)

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15 23:15:57 +05:30