Re: HW breakpoints perf_events request

Andi Kleen
2010-01-14T02:15:42Z

Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincus@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a request for an additional feature to be included
> in the recent hardware breakpoints work soon to be delivered
> in kernel 2.6.33.

Sounds to me like the existing ptrace based interface
can practically all you want

(except that the "parent signal" would be wait and for
fork/exec you have to explicitely attach)

-Andi

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