Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755464Ab0ANCPm (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753763Ab0ANCPm (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:15:42 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45285 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402Ab0ANCPl (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:15:41 -0500 To: Joshua Pincus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , "K.Prasad" , peterz@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org, acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HW breakpoints perf_events request From: Andi Kleen References: Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:15:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Joshua Pincus's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:45:55 -0800") Message-ID: <87ljg1fn3u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 21 Joshua Pincus writes: > I have a request for an additional feature to be included > in the recent hardware breakpoints work soon to be delivered > in kernel 2.6.33. Sounds to me like the existing ptrace based interface can practically all you want (except that the "parent signal" would be wait and for fork/exec you have to explicitely attach) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/