RE: Problems with kernel support for hardware watchpoints

2011-02-10 Thread Will Deacon
Hi Arnd, > > The memory-mapped interface is hugely unreliable in real hardware because > > you have to calculate the address of the memory-mapped debug registers by > > using a base and offset, which are hardcoded in some information registers. > > Unfortunately, I've never found a board where the

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2011-02-10 Thread Ira Rosen
Hi, * regtested vzip/vuzp patch * looked into big-endian build * applied all the required patches and checked that Viterbi gets vectorized giving ~2x performance improvement (compiled with cross-compiler) * looked into vld/vst implementation - mostly discussions with Richard * DenBench analysis:

RE: Problems with kernel support for hardware watchpoints

2011-02-10 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Hi Will, > > - It seems odd that the kernel says it doesn't support the debug > > architecture, but then reports to user space that 1 watchpoint and 6 > > breakpoints are supported ... GDB will never use the watchpoint, because > > the maximum watchpoint size is reported as zero, but GDB will at

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2011-02-10 Thread Revital1 Eres
Hello, * Analyzing DENBench benchmarks. * Running mp3 player on Crotex A9 with gcc-linaro -r99463 using SMS flags (*) gives 21% improvement in execution time compared to using only base flags(**). (*) -fmodulo-sched -fmodulo-sched-allow-regmoves (**) -mcpu=cortex-a9 -mtune=cortex-a9 -mthumb -

Re: Problems with kernel support for hardware watchpoints

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Hope
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote: >> The simple rule is Cortex-A8 is unsupported and Cortex-A9 is supported. >> The A5 should work (untested) and the A15 will need a bit of hacking to >> get it supported. > > OK.  I guess I can try on our Versatile Express. The PandaBoards ur