Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Allow the user not to build hw_breakpoints

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:54:17AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Why do you have to be able to disable breakpoints to disable perf? That seems seriously backwards, especially since we had breakpoints long before perf...

That started when we implemented breakpoints as counters. Then we realized that
ptrace had its own scheduling that was somehow duplicating what perf was doing.
So we have finally unified that under perf. The good point is that archs don't need
to care much about ptrace breakpoints tracking, just the interface.

But yeah the bad point is that dependency.
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