Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:05:04 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch 0/4] Enhance perf-events to profile memory accesses using hw-breakpoints - ver II |
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* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well this ascii art should be a bit more complicated actually. But > anyway. Prasad's patchset is another branch of evolution of > tracing/hw-breakpoints. > > I've expressed my opinion about that in a mail yesterday. I basically > think it limits the perf events possibilities and rewrites the context > binding / register allocation that perf already handles.
Ok, in hindsight i agree with your point of view - we really dont want a duplicate layer but a single handler/arbitrer of hw-breakpoint state.
Ingo
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