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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] powerpc/watchpoint: Introduce function to get nr
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Date:   Wed, 1 Apr 2020 12:20:03 +0530
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On 4/1/20 11:59 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 01/04/2020 à 08:12, Ravi Bangoria a écrit :
>> So far we had only one watchpoint, so we have hardcoded HBP_NUM to 1.
>> But future Power architecture is introducing 2nd DAWR and thus kernel
>> should be able to dynamically find actual number of watchpoints
>> supported by hw it's running on. Introduce function for the same.
>> Also convert HBP_NUM macro to HBP_NUM_MAX, which will now represent
>> maximum number of watchpoints supported by Powerpc.
> 
> 
> Everywhere else in the code, it is called 'breakpoint', not 'watchpoint'.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more consistent to call the function nr_bp_slots() instead of nr_wp_slots() ?
> 
> Especially as we are likely going to extend your changes to support DABR2 in addition to DABR on BOOK3S/32.

Sure. I don't have strong onion for nr_wp_slots() and I can rename it to
nr_bp_slots(). but...

Even though existing code uses breakpoint and watchpoint interchangeably,
I'm using wp/watchpoint to represent data-breakpoint, to distinguish it
from instruction-breakpoint (CIABR). So IMHO, nr_wp_slots() should return
number DAWRs/DABRs and nr_bp_slots() should return number of CIABRs. Is
that okay?

Ravi