On 12/13/2011 11:41 AM, Jason Wessel wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 12:41 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
>> I've tried to use single-stepping ('ss' command) on ARM
>> from KDB, without success.
>>
>> Has anyone done this - is it currently supported on ARM?
>
> It is only supported via patches that are not in the mainline kernel the same
> is also true of the MIPS architecture.
>
> The last consideration I had taken a look at was to consider using the
> kprobes for single stepping, assuming kprobes work ok on ARM, vs using
> emulation of single stepping with breakpoints.
>
> The other possibility for newer arm hardward (v7 and up) is to use the
> hw_breakpoint API and plumb it into kdb/kgdb via the arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c.
> It is probably time to take another look at this now since it was merged to
> the mainline in the last year.
OK. Thanks very much for the response. I started looking at it myself,
and it looked too complicated for me to tackle without a lot
more research. My understanding is that older ARM hardware
(pre-V7) doesn't have single-step support, which appears
to match what you're saying above.
If you or someone else works on this, let me know. I'd be a willing
tester. But I probably don't have enough cycles (or experience with kdb/kgdb)
to actually implement this myself.
-- Tim
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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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