Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri May 03 2019 - 12:45:20 EST


On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:35 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:31:26PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I guess the real question is, what's the performance impact of doing
> > that?
>
> Is there anyone that considers i386 a performance platform?

Not me. As far as I'm concerned, I will basically always gladly trade
several cycles for simplicity on 32-bit.

--Andy