It seems HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT depends on PERF_EVENTS, I will double check this on 
Monday. If
it is, would it be ok to have the overhead in default build?

Ting

----- 原始郵件 -----
> 寄件者: "Kyle Huey" <[email protected]>
> 收件者: "Ting-Yu Chou" <[email protected]>
> 副本: "dev-b2g" <[email protected]>
> 寄件備份: 2014 7 月 12 星期六 上午 12:32:09
> 主旨: Re: [b2g] [Flame] Can use hardware watchpoint now
> 
> This is awesome!  Can we change the flame's default KConfig to have this
> patch?
> 
> Great work.
> 
> - Kyle
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Ting-Yu Chou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As of bug 1035645 landing, gdb hardware watchpoint will be working on Flame
> > with
> > following steps:
> >
> >   a. Enable kernel HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
> >      diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >      index 9dd7949..04f3b99 100644
> >      --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >      +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >      @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ config ARM
> >              select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
> >              select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
> >              select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> >      -       select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if (PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_V6 ||
> >      CPU_V6K || CPU_V7))
> >      +#      select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if (PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_V6 ||
> >      CPU_V6K || CPU_V7))
> >      +       select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
> >              select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> >              select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> >              select HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
> >   b. Replace prebuilts/misc/android-arm/gdbserver/gdbserver by another one
> >   of at
> >      least 7.4, for example, the one from linaro [1] or jimdb [2].
> >   c. $ ./build.sh && ./flash.sh
> >   d. $ export GDB=path/to/the/gdb/come/with/gdbserver; ./run-gdb.sh
> >   e. (gdb) set can-use-hw-watchpoints 1
> >
> > I hope there's an easier way for a), but I haven't found it.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://releases.linaro.org/13.10/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2013.10_linux.tar.bz2
> > [2] http://people.mozilla.org/~nchen/jimdb/jimdb-arm-linux_x64.tar.bz2
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ting
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