gdb: LoongArch: Add support for hardware breakpoint

LoongArch defines hardware watchpoint functions for fetch operations.
After the software configures the watchpoints for fetch, the processor
hardware will monitor the access addresses of the fetch operations and
trigger a watchpoint exception when the watchpoint setting conditions
are met.

Hardware watchpoints for fetch operations is used to implement hardware
breakpoint function on LoongArch. Refer to the following document for
hardware breakpoint.
https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch-Vol1-EN.html#control-and-status-registers-related-to-watchpoints

A simple test is as follows:

lihui@bogon:~$ cat test.c
  #include <stdio.h>
  int a = 0;
  int main()
  {
        printf("start test\n");
        a = 1;
        printf("a = %d\n", a);
        printf("end test\n");
        return 0;
  }
lihui@bogon:~$ gcc -g test.c -o test

without this patch:

lihui@bogon:~$ gdb test
...
(gdb) start
...
Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:5
5               printf("start test\n");
(gdb) hbreak 8
No hardware breakpoint support in the target.

with this patch:

lihui@bogon:~$ gdb test
...
(gdb) start
...

Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:5
5               printf("start test\n");
(gdb) hbreak 8
Hardware assisted breakpoint 2 at 0x1200006ec: file test.c, line 8.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
start test
a = 1

Breakpoint 2, main () at test.c:8
8               printf("end test\n");
(gdb) c
Continuing.
end test
[Inferior 1 (process 25378) exited normally]

Signed-off-by: Hui Li <lihui@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
This commit is contained in:
Hui Li
2024-06-11 19:21:26 +08:00
committed by Tiezhu Yang
parent c1cdee0e2c
commit 6ced1278fc
7 changed files with 173 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -751,6 +751,8 @@
/* note name must be "LINUX". */
#define NT_LARCH_LBT 0xa04 /* LoongArch Binary Translation registers */
/* note name must be "CORE". */
#define NT_LOONGARCH_HW_BREAK 0xa05 /* LoongArch hardware breakpoint registers */
/* note name must be "LINUX". */
#define NT_LOONGARCH_HW_WATCH 0xa06 /* LoongArch hardware watchpoint registers */
/* note name must be "LINUX". */
#define NT_RISCV_CSR 0x900 /* RISC-V Control and Status Registers */