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From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] uprobes: add global breakpoints
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5024008F.9070206@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344355952-2382-6-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de>

On 8/7/12 9:12 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> What I miss right now is an interface to tell the user/gdb that there is a
> program that hit a global breakpoint and is waiting for further instructions.
> A "tail -f trace" does not work and may contain also a lot of other
> informations. I've been thinking about a poll()able file which returns pids of
> tasks which are put on hold. Other suggestions?
>

In case anybody is having a mysterious sense of deja vu about this, my 
patch last year for global breakpoints ( 
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-06/msg00163.html and friends) 
had the same issue, and solved this by opening a device /dev/breakpoint 
and hooking it up to a GDB event handler.  (GDB event handling 
ultimately calls poll() on the collection of event sources.)

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1344355952-2382-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2012-08-07 16:13 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-08 13:19   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-08-09 17:18     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-13 13:20       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-08-14 11:44         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-09 18:25   ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2012-08-13 11:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-20 15:27     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-21 19:42     ` [RFC 5/5 v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-22 13:53       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-08-27 18:57         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-08-29 15:48           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-08-30 20:42             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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