linux-kernel - More hw_breakpoint scariness reduction

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:38:32 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Subject: More hw_breakpoint scariness reduction

Would you all consider it acceptable to disallow watchpoints on per
cpu data entirely?  I can think of a *lot* of places where hitting #DB
when accessing per cpu data from entry asm would be bad.

Of course, actually implementing that might be less than entirely fun,
given that a cpu could be onlined after creating a watchpoint.

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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