Power10 introduced 2nd watchpoint (DAWR). ISA 3.1, Book 3S, Ch 9 - 'Debug Facilities' covers the feature in detail. Kernel patches to enable the 2nd DAWR are already in[1], including kvm enablement[2]. These patches adds selftests for 2nd DAWR.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/deb2bd9bcc8428d4b65b6ba640ba8b57c1b20b17 [2]: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/bd1de1a0e6eff4bde5ceae969673b85b8446fd6a
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407054938.312857-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.co... v2->v3: - Fixed some checkpatch warnings
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200723102058.312282-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.co... v1->v2: - Kvm patches are already upstream - Rebased selftests to powerpc/next
Ravi Bangoria (4): powerpc/selftests/ptrace-hwbreak: Add testcases for 2nd DAWR powerpc/selftests/perf-hwbreak: Coalesce event creation code powerpc/selftests/perf-hwbreak: Add testcases for 2nd DAWR powerpc/selftests: Add selftest to test concurrent perf/ptrace events
.../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/.gitignore | 1 + .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/Makefile | 2 +- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/perf-hwbreak.c | 631 +++++++++++++++-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c | 79 +++ .../powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-perf-hwbreak.c | 659 ++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 1330 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-perf-hwbreak.c