From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS, PERF_EVENTS, INSTRUCTION_DECODER, IRQ_WORK, ANON_INODES
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:50:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310145030.GD21735@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140310074354.GA4890@gmail.com>
On 03/10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So my main problem with those patches was that if HW_BREAKPOINTS is
> disabled then GDB 'hbreak' isn't simply disabled but fails in various
> non-obvious ways,
but the kernel should return an error. And this can happen anyway, say,
reserve_bp_slot() can fail because all slots are already used by perf.
And iirc, gdb always switches to the single-stepping if hbreak fails.
Oleg.
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[not found] <cover.1394418994.git.josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-03-10 4:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS, PERF_EVENTS, INSTRUCTION_DECODER, IRQ_WORK, ANON_INODES Andi Kleen
2014-03-10 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-10 8:42 ` Josh Triplett
2014-03-11 10:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-10 14:50 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-03-11 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <32f5e0a3b421b615be3af24b0319afff1a385403.1394418994.git.josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-03-10 14:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] trace: Make UPROBES depend on PERF_EVENTS Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-10 15:03 ` Josh Triplett
[not found] ` <2741f8cbe6346ef051f7f7b1c39f9a026942b763.1394418994.git.josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-03-10 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] x86, ptrace: Ifdef HW_BREAKPOINTS code in ptrace Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-10 14:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-10 15:15 ` Josh Triplett
2014-03-10 17:41 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-10 17:44 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <5a5942a0cdb0914ecd81d2880190c19abb228511.1394418994.git.josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-03-10 16:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS, PERF_EVENTS, INSTRUCTION_DECODER, IRQ_WORK Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-10 17:20 ` Josh Triplett
2014-03-10 20:50 ` Josh Triplett
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