hw-breakpoints: x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces

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This patch introduces the arch-specific implementation of the generic
hardware breakpoints in kernel/hw_breakpoint.c inside x86 specific directories.
It contains functions which help to validate and serve requests using
Hardware Breakpoint registers on x86 processors.

[ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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K.Prasad 2009-06-01 23:43:57 +05:30 • committed by Frederic Weisbecker

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arch/x86/Kconfig

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arch/x86/kernel/Makefile

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arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

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