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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: tbench regression with 2.6.33-rc1
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 04:56:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100102035644.GC5238@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261908662.15854.4.camel@laptop>

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:11:02AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 10:41 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 09:59 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 09:32 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > Perf also isn't free, and in 33, we lost the ability to config it out,
> > > 
> > > Uhm, that's a plain bug, we should be able to build a kernel without
> > > perf support, does the hw breakpoint support have an unfortunate select
> > > some place or something?
> > 
> > Yeah, it's selected in arch/x86/Kconfig.  The kernel won't build without
> > it either.
> 
> Came from this :/
> 
> Any way we can fix this? Frederic/Ingo?



No way I think.
breakpoints support by ptrace is a builtin option in x86 and
it's implemented on top of perf.

The only solution to solve this would be to make the breakpoints
support optional.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-02  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25 11:11 tbench regression with 2.6.33-rc1 Lin Ming
2009-12-27  8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-27  8:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-27  9:41     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-27 10:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-02  3:56         ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-12-29  2:09   ` Lin Ming
2009-12-29  5:24     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-29  5:19       ` Lin Ming
2009-12-29  5:49         ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-06  6:01           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-06  5:55             ` Lin Ming
2010-01-06  6:52               ` Lin Ming
2010-01-06  7:44                 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-11 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-11 16:16   ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  1:09     ` Lin Ming
2010-01-12  2:33       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  3:13         ` Lin Ming
2010-01-12  4:14           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  8:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-12  9:20         ` Lin Ming

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