From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11434 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2012 12:37:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 11316 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Dec 2012 12:37:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:36:54 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBJCaqgf015949 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:36:52 -0500 Received: from host2.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-116-39.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.39]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id qBJCahX2009366 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:36:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:37:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Mark Kettenis Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com, palves@redhat.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, markus.t.metzger@gmail.com Subject: Re: [patch v6 00/12] branch tracing support for Atom Message-ID: <20121219123643.GA10125@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <1355760101-26237-1-git-send-email-markus.t.metzger@intel.com> <20121218091953.GF8054@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121218135437.GA16636@host2.jankratochvil.net> <201212191213.qBJCD3cV016182@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201212191213.qBJCD3cV016182@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-12/txt/msg00698.txt.bz2 On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:13:03 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > FWIW, I think btrace functionality would be useful even without full > record support. Some form of branch tracing is available on a lot of > RISCy processors. And I can see people wanting to add support for it > without implementing the full record machinery (which is a lot of > work). Intel BTS does not provide "full record machinery", it can be used only for the btranch tracing. It is only questionable whether the new branch tracing should share the same user interface with the existing full record machinery interface "record". Regards, Jan