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Re: [commit] Fix broken watchpoints (Re: [patch-ppc] Hardware watchpoint support for 44x/BookE-based systems)


Stupid typo.

Thanks for fixing this.

Luis
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:23 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
> 
> > 	* ppc-linux-nat.c: Include "auxv.h" and "elf/common.h".
> > 	Define PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE.	
> > 	(ppc_linux_get_hwcap): New function.
> > 	(ppc_linux_region_ok_for_hw_watchpoint): Handle PowerPC 440
> > 	4-bytes alignment restrictions.
> > 	(ppc_linux_insert_watchpoint): Handle PowerPC 440-specific
> > 	positioning of the read/write flags.
> > 	(ppc_linux_watchpoint_addr_within_range): Handle PowerPC 440
> > 	4-bytes alignment.
> 
> unfortunately this patch completely broke watchpoint support for me on Cell.
> The reason is that this routine:
> 
> >+/* Fetch the AT_HWCAP entry from the aux vector.  */
> >+unsigned long ppc_linux_get_hwcap (void)
> >+{
> >+  CORE_ADDR field;
> >+
> >+  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_PLATFORM, &field))
> >+    return (unsigned long) field;
> 
> really needs to fetch AT_HWCAP, *not* AT_PLATFORM (which is a string).
> 
> Fixed by the patch below.  Tested on powerpc-linux and powerpc64-linux
> (on Cell/B.E.), checked into mainline.
> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* ppc-linux-nat.c (ppc_linux_get_hwcap): Really get AT_HWCAP.
> 
> 
> diff -urNp gdb-orig/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c gdb-head/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c
> --- gdb-orig/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c	2008-08-12 19:13:15.793562000 +0200
> +++ gdb-head/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c	2008-08-12 19:49:17.363981345 +0200
> @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ unsigned long ppc_linux_get_hwcap (void)
>  {
>    CORE_ADDR field;
> 
> -  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_PLATFORM, &field))
> +  if (target_auxv_search (&current_target, AT_HWCAP, &field))
>      return (unsigned long) field;
> 
>    return 0;
> 


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