MN10300: Emulate single stepping in KGDB on MN10300
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:54:32 +0000 (16:54 +0000)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:54:32 +0000 (16:54 +0000)
commit5141c46c6137f4866eb5f29e25ed0556bcc4c634
tree321b2be3281fdc91a4f7d6b4e6c1bac272387f97
parent044264bbe34085b550e6429ce97ef310667be9dc
MN10300: Emulate single stepping in KGDB on MN10300

Emulate single stepping in KGDB on MN10300 by way of temporary breakpoint
insertion.  These breakpoints are never actually seen by KGDB, and will overlay
KGDB's own breakpoints.

The breakpoints are removed by switch_to() and reinstalled on switching back so
that if preemption occurs, the preempting task doesn't hit them (though it will
still hit KGDB's regular breakpoints).  If KGDB is reentered for any reason,
then the single step breakpoint is completely erased and must be set again by
the debugger.

We take advantage of the fact that KGDB will effectively halt all other CPUs
whilst this CPU is single-stepping to avoid SMP problems.

If the single-stepping task is preempted and killed without KGDB being
reinvoked, then the breakpoint(s) will be cleared and KGDB will be jumped back
into.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
arch/mn10300/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/mn10300/kernel/kgdb.c
arch/mn10300/kernel/switch_to.S