Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:26:56 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Allow the user not to build hw_breakpoints |
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 07/14/2011 08:03 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > So that hw_breakpoints and perf can be not built on > > specific embedded systems. > > I want to emphasize I am very, very unhappy about this. It should > be possible to not build perf while still have breakpoints > available... breakpoints are way more important than perf.
What we could indeed do is to separate out a 'core perf' portion that is necessary for hw-breakpoints to work fine, thus allowing for example the PMU drivers to be disabled.
Otherwise we have expressed hw breakpoint APIs via perf events and that model is working well. Making hw-breakpoints a separate subsystem again with isolated (and partly duplicated) infrastructure would be a step back really.
Thanks,
Ingo
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