Re: [PATCH 10/17] 2.6.17.1 perfmon2 patch for review: PMU context switch

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 30 June 2006 18:02, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Andi,
> 
> As a first step, I am looking at implementing a TIF_DEBUG
> for x86-64. AFAIK, debug registers must not be inherited on
> fork().

Why not?  Especially for threads you probably want them
in the new thread too.

-Andi
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