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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:11:53 +0200
From: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
"K . Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] perfcounter: Add support for kernel hardware
breakpoints
2009/7/20, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:08 -0400, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> This adds the support for kernel hardware breakpoints in perfcounter.
>> It is added as a new type of software counter and can be defined by
>> using the counter number 5 and by passsing the address of the
>> breakpoint to set through the config attribute.
>
>
>> +void bp_perf_triggered(struct hw_breakpoint *bp, struct pt_regs *regs)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long target = hw_breakpoint_addr(bp);
>> +
>> + struct perf_sample_data data = {
>> + .regs = regs,
>> + .addr = instruction_pointer(regs),
>> + };
>> +
>> + do_perf_swcounter_event(PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT, target, 1, 0, &data);
>> +}
>
> .addr would be an associated data address, like for pagefaults and
> cache-misses have, its not the RIP of the faulting ins.
Ah ok, then I'll set the actual data memory address that is breakpointed.
Thanks.
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