Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757014Ab3DPJg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:36:26 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f50.google.com ([209.85.214.50]:62893 "EHLO mail-bk0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754433Ab3DPJgZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:36:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:36:20 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jacob Shin , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker , Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, Stephane Eranian , Jiri Olsa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf: Add support for hardware breakpoint address masks Message-ID: <20130416093620.GH9569@gmail.com> References: <1365528113-5458-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> <20130415172803.GA18406@jshin-Toonie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130415172803.GA18406@jshin-Toonie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 32 * Jacob Shin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:48PM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote: > > The following patchset adds address masks to existing perf hardware > > breakpoint mechanism to allow trapping on an address range (currently > > only single address) on supported architectures. > > > > perf uapi is updated, x86 AMD implementation (for AMD Family 16h and > > beyond) is provided, and perf tool has been extended to do: > > > > $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000:w:0xf a.out > > ^^^ > > "don't care" bit mask > > > > which will count writes to [0x1000 ~ 0x1010) > > Ping .. Ingo? breakpoint patches usually come to me through (or with the acks of) Frederic and/or Oleg. Frederic, Oleg, mind having a look? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/