Re: [PATCH 4/6] hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layeron top of perf events

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Nov 05 2009 - 06:11:57 EST


On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:03:36PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Frederic Weisbecker writes:
>
> > @@ -207,6 +212,15 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
> > __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */
> > __u32 wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup */
> > };
> > +
> > + union {
> > + struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */
> > + __u64 bp_addr;
> > + __u32 bp_type;
> > + __u32 bp_len;
> > + };
> > + };
>
> I'm wondering why you don't use attr.config for anything with
> breakpoint events?
>
> Paul.


Because this is not sufficient to host the breakpoint parameters
given from userspace. May be I'm missing something?

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