Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] target/arm: gdbstub cleanups and additions

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 21:33, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This is my pauth enhancements from last year, the corresponding gdb
> patches for which are nearing merge.  If lore and patchew are to be
> believed, I never posted this to the list, only pushed a branch so
> that issue #1105 could see it.
>
> Since the cleanups there conflict with the recent m-profile gdbstub
> patch set, I set about to resolve those.  In the process, I merged
> the secure extension code with the sysregs, since they're simply
> presenting different views of the same registers.
>
> Changes for v3:
>   * Drop write paths; there's quite a lot to reorg in v7m_msr, and
>     it's not clear what should even happen on the exception paths.
>
> Changes for v2:
>   * Incorporate feedback for pauth.
>   * Rewrite m-profile systemreg and secext xml.
>     - Since these are Known to gdb, do not merge the two xml.
>     - Upstream gdb only knows about {M,P}SP, but David's extension
>       to include the other registers makes sense and Luis confirms
>       that it's ok to have extra registers in the two features.
>     - Continue to share code between the two xml, but separate
>       out the mapping from gdbstub regno to internal enumeration.



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

-- PMM