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authorK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-06-01 23:43:33 +0530
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-06-02 22:46:58 +0200
commit62a038d34db26771756cf3689e36de638bedd2c4 (patch)
tree4b435b34474a889d8a5c82b687e981d9e09abc91 /arch
parentb332828c39326b1dca617f387dd15d12e81cd5f0 (diff)
hw-breakpoints: introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user and kernel space requests. This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of arch implementation. One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint: - register_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint() On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints. - register_user_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() - modify_user_hw_breakpoint() [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ] 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 78a35e9dc10..1adf2d0e635 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -112,3 +112,7 @@ config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
bool
+
+config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+ bool
+