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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, jacob.w.shin@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	acme@ghostprotocols.net, hpa@zytor.com, tgl@domain.invalid,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sherry.hurwitz@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD support for bp_len > HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 16:11:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131109151156.GA14249@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131108194122.GA14606@localhost.localdomain>

On 11/08, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:11:06AM -0500, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > index d3f5c63..26609bb 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> > @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT	(6*32+22) /* topology extensions CPUID leafs */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE (6*32+23) /* core performance counter extensions */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_NB  (6*32+24) /* NB performance counter extensions */
> > +#define X86_FEATURE_BPEXT	(6*32+26) /* data breakpoint extension */
>
> Does this feature only work on data breakpoint or is instruction breakpoint
> address range supported as well?

IIRC, execute range is supported as well.

But. I can't look at the code now, but iirc this can't really work until
we fix the (already discussed) problems with bp_len && X86_BREAKPOINT_LEN_X.
IOW, we should not blame these patches if it doesn't work.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-09 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-02 16:11 [PATCH V5 0/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD Family 16h Data Breakpoint Extensions suravee.suthikulpanit
2013-10-02 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD support for bp_len > HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8 suravee.suthikulpanit
2013-10-31  9:58   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-31 10:48     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-31 11:23       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-02  4:34         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-08 21:22           ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2013-11-08 14:40             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-31 16:49     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-08 19:41   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-09 15:11     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-11-09 15:32       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-09 15:54         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-11 15:44           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-11 17:51             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-02 23:12               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-04 13:57                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-10 14:43                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-10 14:52                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-10 15:23   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-10 16:19     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-10 16:30       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-11 12:05     ` Suravee Suthikulanit
2013-10-02 16:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len suravee.suthikulpanit
2013-12-10 15:25   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-12-10 16:22     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-10 16:26       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-02 16:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf tools: add hardware breakpoint bp_len test cases suravee.suthikulpanit
2013-10-02 16:15 ` [PATCH V5 0/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD Family 16h Data Breakpoint Extensions Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-02 16:54   ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2013-10-31  9:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-28  6:05 [PATCH V4 " Jacob Shin
2013-04-28  6:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD support for bp_len > HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8 Jacob Shin
2013-04-26 18:57 [PATCH 0/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD Family 16h Data Breakpoint Extensions Jacob Shin
2013-04-26 18:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86/amd: AMD support for bp_len > HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8 Jacob Shin
2013-04-27 15:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-27 15:14     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-27 15:40     ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-27 16:10       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-28  6:05         ` Jacob Shin

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