Hi Jeffrey,
CC linux-arch
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch series adds an export which can be set by system debuggers to
> direct the hard lockup and soft lockup detector to trigger a breakpoint
> exception and enter a debugger if one is active. It is assumed that if
> someone sets this variable, then an breakpoint handler of some sort will
> be actively loaded or registered via the notify die handler chain.
>
> This addition is extremely useful for debugging hard and soft lockups
> real time and quickly from a console debugger.
As there's no cover letter, I'm giving my (mostly general) comments in a
reply to this patch.
> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/m68k/include/asm/kdebug.h | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/m68k/include/asm/kdebug.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/kdebug.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/kdebug.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..5d09de1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/kdebug.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +
> +static inline void arch_breakpoint(void)
> +{
> +}
No include guards in the newly added header files?
This new file will conflict with arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild, which has:
generic-y += kdebug.h
What about putting the dummy arch_breakpoint() in include/asm-generic/kdebug.h
instead, like
#ifndef arch_breakpoint
static inline void arch_breakpoint(void)
{
}
#endif
Architectures providing their own version have to #define arch_breakpoint.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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