Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754385AbXF0CoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:44:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754644AbXF0CoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:44:08 -0400 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:2733 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754060AbXF0CoH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:44:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:43:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Roland McGrath cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Kernel development list Subject: Re: [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch) In-Reply-To: <20070626181715.7264AD0002@magilla.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 25 On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Roland McGrath wrote: > I needed the attached patch on top of the bptest patch for the current > code. Btw, that is a very nice little tester! I had already made some of those changes (the ones needed to make bptest build with the new hw_breakpoint code). I'll add in the others. > Below that is a patch to go on top of your current patch, with x86-64 > support. I've only tried a few trivial tests with bptest (including an > 8-byte bp), which worked great. It is a pretty faithful copy of your i386 > changes. I'm still not sure we have all that right, but you might as well > incorporate this into your patch. You should change the x86_64 code in > parallel with any i386 changes we decide on later, and I can test it and > send you any typo fixups or whatnot. Right. I may update a few comments... Alan Stern - 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/