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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0701171114040.2381-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:17:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@...ibm.com>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote: > > > From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> > > > > This patch (as839) implements the Kwatch (kernel-space hardware-based > > watchpoints) API for the i386 architecture. The API is explained in > > the kerneldoc for register_kwatch() in arch/i386/kernel/kwatch.c. > > i think it would be nice to have this ontop of Roland's utrace > infrastructure, which nicely modularizes all hardware debugging > capabilities and detaches it from ptrace. I'll be happy to move this over to the utrace setting, once it is merged. Do you think it would be better to include the current version of kwatch now or to wait for utrace? Roland, is there a schedule for when you plan to get utrace into -mm? Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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