[Patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint Interfaces

[prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com]

Hi Ingo,
        Please find the revised set of patches that implement Hardware
Breakpoint (or watchpoint) registers and an arch-specific implementation
for x86/x86_64.

Changelog
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A previous version of these patches were submitted through
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/802597. Changes in this
patchset over the previous version include

- Addition of a startup selftest to the ftrace plugin that checks for
  traces after a 'write' operation over a variable registered through
  the plugin for tracing (Patch 11/11).
- A fully-featured reset function - ksym_trace_reset() (Patch 11/11).
- Some of the potential memory leak scenarios identified through the
  comments (Patch 11/11).
- Rebased the patchset against commit
  34bc9c8fa7c868040407cc4822ed517a43792fe8 in -tip tree.

Kindly include them to be a part of -tip tree.

Thanks,
K.Prasad