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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:50:53 +0530
From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
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Subject: [Patch 0/2] HW-BKPT: Introduce per-cpu breakpoints and
	modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint API
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Hi All,
	Please find a set of patches that implement the following:

Patch 1/2: Allow per-cpu kernel-space Hardware Breakpoint requests
Patch 2/2: Allow kernel breakpoints to be modified through a new API

During discussion on LKML, these features were deemed necessary for
effective exploitation of hardware breakpoints by perf-tools.

The patches are based off -tip tree. Kindly let me know your comments
on the same.

Thanks,
K.Prasad