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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:38:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez)
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Hi,

The following patch add 2 macros to set and get debugreg on x86.
This is useful for Xen because it will need only to redefine each macro
to a hypervisor call.

I can regenerate a patch keeping loaddebug if you folks seems that is
necessary or better.

Please apply, or comments.

	Signed-off-by: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>

diff -Naur linux-2.6.12-rc3/include/asm-i386/processor.h linux-2.6.12-rc3.1/include/asm-i386/processor.h
--- linux-2.6.12-rc3/include/asm-i386/processor.h	2005-04-21 11:46:10.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc3.1/include/asm-i386/processor.h	2005-04-22 12:09:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -501,12 +501,16 @@
 } while (0)
 
 /*
- * This special macro can be used to load a debugging register
+ * These special macros can be used to get or set a debugging register
  */
-#define loaddebug(thread,register) \
-               __asm__("movl %0,%%db" #register  \
-                       : /* no output */ \
-                       :"r" ((thread)->debugreg[register]))
+#define cpu_get_debugreg(var, register)				\
+		__asm__("movl %%db" #register ", %0"		\
+			:"=r" (var))
+#define cpu_set_debugreg(value, register)			\
+		__asm__("movl %0,%%db" #register		\
+			: /* no output */			\
+			:"r" (value))
+
 
 /* Forward declaration, a strange C thing */
 struct task_struct;