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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:44:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070117094454.GB19093@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0701161153200.2276-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>


* Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> This patch (as839) implements the Kwatch (kernel-space hardware-based 
> watchpoints) API for the i386 architecture.  The API is explained in 
> the kerneldoc for register_kwatch() in arch/i386/kernel/kwatch.c.

i think it would be nice to have this ontop of Roland's utrace 
infrastructure, which nicely modularizes all hardware debugging 
capabilities and detaches it from ptrace.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-17  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-16 16:55 [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers Alan Stern
2007-01-16 23:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-17 16:33   ` Alan Stern
2007-01-17  9:44 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-01-17 16:17   ` Alan Stern
2007-01-18  0:12     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-18  7:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-18 15:37         ` Alan Stern
2007-01-18 22:33         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-22 16:54           ` [PATCH - revised] " Alan Stern
2007-02-06  4:25     ` [PATCH] " Roland McGrath
     [not found] <20070206042153.66AB418005D@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2007-02-06 19:58 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-07  2:56   ` Roland McGrath
     [not found] <20070207025008.1B11118005D@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2007-02-07 19:22 ` Alan Stern
2007-02-07 22:08   ` Bob Copeland
2007-02-09 10:21   ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-09 15:54     ` Alan Stern
2007-02-09 23:31       ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-10  4:32         ` Alan Stern
2007-02-18  3:03           ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-21 20:35         ` Alan Stern
2007-02-22 11:43           ` S. P. Prasanna
2007-02-23  2:19           ` Roland McGrath
2007-02-23 16:55             ` Alan Stern
2007-02-24  0:08               ` Roland McGrath

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