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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: kettenis@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] branch tracing support (resend)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lijff5s0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337772151-20265-1-git-send-email-markus.t.metzger@intel.com>	(markus t. metzger's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 13:22:15 +0200")

>>>>> "Markus" == markus t metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> writes:

Markus> IA hardware offers a feature called Branch Trace Store (BTS)
Markus> that stores a log of branches into an OS provided ring buffer.

Thanks for doing this.  I think this is a feature we've wanted for quite
a while.

Markus>   - "btrace enable/disable" perform the obvious operation

I think it may be more "gdb-ish" to make this a set/show option, by
analogy with "set stop-on-solib-events" and the like.

This would give users a way to see whether it is currently enabled, as
well.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-22 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-23 11:23 markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:24 ` [PATCH 06/16] configure: add check for perf_event header markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:43   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:34     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-22 20:40       ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-25  8:50         ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:24 ` [PATCH 10/16] btrace, config: enable btrace for 32bit and 64bit linux native markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:24 ` [PATCH 02/16] source: add flags to print_source_lines () markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:41   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:34     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-22 20:08       ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-25  8:50         ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 01/16] disas: add precise instructions flag markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 03/16] source, disasm: optionally prefix source lines with filename markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:41   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 14/16] remote, btrace: add branch trace remote ops markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:44   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-01  8:49     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 08/16] linux, btrace: perf_event based branch tracing markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:43   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:34     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 15/16] gdbserver, btrace: add generic btrace support markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 16/16] gdbserver, linux, btrace: add btrace support for linux-low markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 13/16] xml, btrace: define btrace xml document style markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:44   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-01  8:39     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 11/16] test, btrace: add branch trace tests markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:44   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-01 11:37     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 09/16] btrace, linux: add linux native btrace target ops markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:43   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:34     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 04/16] thread, btrace: add generic branch trace support markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:42   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:33     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 05/16] cli, btrace: add btrace cli markus.t.metzger
2012-05-30 20:42   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:33     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-01 18:42       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-05  9:56         ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-23 11:26 ` [PATCH 12/16] test, btrace: more branch tracing tests markus.t.metzger
2012-05-23 11:26 ` [PATCH 07/16] configure: autoreconf markus.t.metzger
2012-06-22 20:44   ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-25  8:50     ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-25 19:18 ` [PATCH 00/16] branch tracing support (resend) Pedro Alves
2012-05-29 14:31   ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-30 14:49     ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-30 15:51       ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-30 17:56         ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-31 17:11           ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-04  6:46             ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-12 11:32           ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-12 12:09             ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-12 12:23             ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-12 12:25               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-12 13:38                 ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-05-30 20:41 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-31 15:33   ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-06-22 20:31 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-06-25  8:50   ` Metzger, Markus T
2012-07-02  8:29     ` Metzger, Markus T

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