Granted Patent B2

US 8,402,258 · App. 12/179,632 · Granted Mar 19, 2013

Abstract

Claims (33)

1. A method for generating a debug message, the method comprising:

receiving a translated address and an untranslated address associated with a same processor operation;

setting a value of one or more control indicators based on whether the translated address or the untranslated address is to be used for creating a program trace debug message and whether the translated address or the untranslated address is to be used for creating a data trace debug message;

based on the value of the one or more control indicators, selecting the translated address or the untranslated address as a selected address; and

creating a debug message using at least a portion of the selected address, wherein the debug message includes a field indicating whether the untranslated address or the translated address is selected for the debug message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the creating the debug message comprises including the at least a portion of the selected address in the debug message.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the creating the debug message comprises:

compressing the at least a portion of the selected address to form a compressed selected address; and

including at least a portion of the compressed selected address in the debug message.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

executing the software program.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the type of the software program is a user type or a non-user type.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the untranslated address comprises a virtual address and the translated address comprises a physical address.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the setting the value of the one or more control indicators comprises setting a value of the first control indicator when performing a program trace and setting a value of the second control indicator when performing a data trace.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the debug message is a program trace debug message when performing the program trace and the debug message is a data trace debug message when performing the data trace.

9. A method for debugging a software program, the method comprising:

determining a set of control indicators;

when the control indicators are in a first state, using an untranslated address associated with a first processor operation performed during execution of the software program rather than a translated address associated with the first processor operation to create a first debug message, and including a field in the first debug message indicating whether the untranslated address or the translated address is selected for the first debug message; and

when the control indicators are in a second state, using a translated address associated with a second processor operation performed during execution of the software program rather than an untranslated address associated with the second processor operation to create a second debug message, and including a field in the second debug message indicating whether the untranslated address or the translated address is selected for the second debug message.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first type is characterized as one of a user program type or a non-user program type and the second type is characterized as another one of the user program type or the non-user program type.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first type is characterized as a user program type and the second type is characterized as a non-user program type.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

based on determining whether the software program is the first type or the second type, setting a value of a control indicator indicating whether untranslated or translated addresses are to be used for creating debug messages.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

using the second debug message to generate a program listing corresponding to the software program.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein when the software program is the first type, the first debug message includes at least a portion of the untranslated address associated with the first processor operation or at least a portion of a compressed version of the untranslated address associated with the first processor operation, and when the software program is the second type, the second debug message includes at least a portion of the translated address associated with the second processor operation or at least a portion of a compressed version of the translated address associated with the second processor operation.

15. A data processing system, comprising:

processor circuitry which performs a plurality of processor operations, each of the plurality of processor operations having an associated untranslated address;

address translation logic which translates the associated untranslated address to a translated address, such that each of the plurality of processor operations has an associated translated address; and

debug circuitry which sets a value of a control indicator, and generates debug messages corresponding to each of at least a subset of the plurality of processor operations, wherein each debug message is generated using an untranslated address associated with a corresponding processor operation of the at least a subset of the plurality of processor operations when the control indicator has the first value and a translated address associated with the corresponding processor operation of the at least a subset of the plurality of processor operations when the control indicator has the second value, different from the first value, wherein each debug message includes a field indicating whether the untranslated address or the translated address is selected for that debug message.

16. The data processing system of claim 15 , wherein, for each debug message, the debug circuitry includes at least a portion of a compressed version of the untranslated address when the control indicator has the first value and at least a portion of a compressed version of the translated address when the control indicator has a second value.

17. The data processing system of claim 16 , wherein, for each debug message, the debug circuitry further includes an indicator field indicating whether that debug message includes the at least a portion of the compressed version of the untranslated address or the at least a portion of the compressed version of the translated address.

18. The data processing system of claim 15 , wherein the debug circuitry generates a program listing based on information from the field, in each debug message, indicating whether the untranslated address or the translated address is selected for that debug message.

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