From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:55:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311172506.GC9547@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0903111232300.2692-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:34:43PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, K.Prasad wrote:
>
> > The hardware breakpoint interfaces haven't been put under any CONFIG_
> > till now, but I think we should bring them under a new config, say
> > CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT. It would help create a dependancy for
> > CONFIG_KSYM_TRACER too.
>
> With these patches, ptrace is dependent on hw-breakpoint. You can't
> disable CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT without breaking ptrace.
>
> Alan Stern
>
Agreed. We might have to retain the old code for ptrace and put the new
implementation under #ifdef CONFIG_HW_BREAKPOINT to get them working.
What do you think?
Thanks,
K.Prasad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-05 4:37 [patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces prasad
2009-03-10 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 12:11 ` K.Prasad
2009-03-11 16:34 ` Alan Stern
2009-03-11 17:25 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-03-11 17:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 13:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 14:24 ` Alan Stern
2009-03-10 14:54 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-07 5:04 [Patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint Interfaces prasad
2009-03-24 15:24 [Patch 00/11] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-03-25 19:48 ` Alan Stern
2009-03-27 22:06 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-01 16:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-07 8:22 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-09 20:50 ` Alan Stern
2009-03-28 8:46 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-01 16:22 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-07 8:22 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-07 6:34 K.Prasad
2009-04-16 21:19 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-17 3:12 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-17 14:37 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-24 5:56 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-24 14:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-24 15:57 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-24 16:16 ` Alan Stern
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