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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	robertsong.japan@gmail.com,        gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why no hwatch command in gdb ?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mwrk7vxqo.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310115543.GA5414@host1.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:55:43 +0100")

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> But it being discussed for upstream kernel that the DR registers access via
> PTRACE_POKEUSER is broken anyway and GDB should use the existing hardware
> watchpoints support in Linux kernel perf via some higher level interface
> (still probably through the ptrace syscall).

While a new kernel interface wouldn't be able to fabricate any
hardware-watchpoint resources after they're exhausted, a properly
designed one should be able to evaluate software watchpoints much
faster.

- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10  7:25 robert song
2011-03-10  8:12 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 10:09   ` robert song
2011-03-10 10:34     ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 11:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-10 11:34         ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-10 12:27           ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-10 11:55         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 14:47           ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2011-03-10 12:18       ` robert song
2011-03-10 13:45         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-10 14:47           ` Philippe Waroquiers
2011-03-10 21:04             ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-11  7:58               ` Philippe Waroquiers
2011-03-11 17:48           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-03-10  8:23 paawan oza

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