Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> Not yet. We are talking to internal teams regarding gdb support.
> >
> >But you already have reasonably realistic test code right?
> 
> I wrote a small program to talk to ptrace and look at the trace of 
> small sample programs to test the patch. I do this on P4 32bit and 
> Core2 64bit.
> 
> Our debugger team has a prototype implementation for their debugger. 
> But that will not be available for some time.
> 
> I hope that we get gdb support, soon, but that would take a while if I 
> had to do it.

i'm wondering what the main use-case would be then, and what the gdb 
folks think about the current API. (Roland?)

	Ingo
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