From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968069AbcA1Tyr (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:54:47 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com ([209.85.218.66]:33741 "EHLO mail-oi0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967426AbcA1Tq1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:46:27 -0500 From: Jeffrey Merkey To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, linux.mdb@gmail.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 05/31] Add debugger entry points for IA64 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:46:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1454010383-28585-1-git-send-email-jeffmerkey@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Merkey --- arch/ia64/include/asm/kdebug.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/kdebug.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/kdebug.h index d11a698..8866d8d 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/kdebug.h +++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/kdebug.h @@ -54,4 +54,8 @@ enum die_val { DIE_KDUMP_LEAVE, }; +static inline void arch_breakpoint(void) +{ +} + #endif -- 1.8.3.1