Re: perf support user-space hw_breakpoint?

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi, Jovi

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:22:01 +0800, Jovi Zhang wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Does perf support user space hw_breakpoint based on per-task?
>
> perf already support kenerl space hw_breakpoint, but there don't have
> any example for
> user-space hw_breakpoint in code base(and never metion it).
> From perf api point of view, it should support per-task hw_breakpoint easily.
> but I still want to make sure that?(badly I don't have any linux
> machine to test it now:))
>

Here is my simple test:

namhyung@sejong:perf$ nm -nD /usr/bin/ls | grep D
0000000000619ce0 D quoting_style_args
000000000061a530 D ls_mode
000000000061a538 D Version
000000000061a540 D argmatch_die
000000000061a548 D exit_failure

namhyung@sejong:perf$ ./perf stat -e mem:0x61a530 -e mem:0x61a538 -- /usr/bin/ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/ls':

                 1 mem:0x61a530:rw                                             
                 0 mem:0x61a538:rw                                             

       0.002213595 seconds time elapsed


So, it should work on user-space hw_breakpoints.

BTW, when I perf record on a hwbp, it failed with ENOSPC.
I guess it's because each per-task-per-cpu event tried to
create an event so it'd get more than supported by h/w.
The strace told me that the fifth call to perf_event_open
failed on my 6-core machine.

Thanks,
Namhyung