From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:02:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009060228.GB7664@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131008203526.GG8392@localhost.localdomain>
* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:05:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:55:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > 1) make breakpoints independant from perf. The drawback is that we must then
> > > add seperate hooks on context switch for ptrace breakpoints. OTOH we get
> > > rid of the perf -> breakpoint -> perf circular dependency, which is the very
> > > controversial thing.
> >
> > we used to have this in __switch_to_xtra(), right?
>
> Right.
>
> And then it got replaced by perf events scheduling.
Which we have anyway - so this moved complexity out the contex switch
path, for the common case where no hardware-breakpoints are used.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-04 21:39 Allow disabling perf on x86 Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86, amd: Move __get_ibs_caps into common amd CPU file Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf, x86: Make perf amd ibs code depend on PERF_EVENTS and SUP_AMD Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, ptrace: Ifdef HW_BREAKPOINTS code in ptrace Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] trace: Make UPROBES depend on PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-05 0:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-05 3:25 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, kgdb: Support compiling without hardware break points Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 22:27 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-05 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-05 17:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-08 19:55 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 20:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-09 6:02 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-06 16:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-08 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:42 ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-08 15:51 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-08 16:22 ` David Ahern
2013-10-08 16:24 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-08 19:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 20:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-09 3:21 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09 3:24 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09 3:39 ` Andi Kleen
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