From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932345AbVHaOjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:39:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932348AbVHaOjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:39:20 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:35513 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932345AbVHaOjT (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:39:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:39:18 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 16/16] Add hardware breakpoint support for i386 Message-ID: <20050831143918.GG3966@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <1.2982005.trini@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:23:39PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Tom Rini writes: > > > This adds hardware breakpoint support for i386. This is not as well tested as > > software breakpoints, but in some minimal testing appears to be functional. > > This really would need so coordination with user space using > them. Otherwise it'll be quite unreliable because any user program > can break it. Probably easiest to just drop this for now then, thanks. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/