> > > > On this second syscall, fetch_bp_busy_slots() sets slots.pinned to be 1, > > > > despite there being no breakpoint on this CPU. This is because the call > > > > the task_bp_pinned, checks all CPUs, rather than just the current CPU. > > > > POWER7 only has one hardware breakpoint per CPU (ie. HBP_NUM=1), so we > > > > return ENOSPC. > > > > > > I think this comes from the ptrace legacy, we register a breakpoint on > > > all cpus because when we migrate a task it cannot fail to migrate the > > > breakpoint. > > > > > > Its one of the things I hate most about the hwbp stuff as it relates to > > > perf. > > > > > > Frederic knows more... > > > > Maybe I should wait for Frederic to respond but I'm not sure I > > understand what you're saying. > > > > I can see how using ptrace hw breakpoints and perf hw breakpoints at the > > same time could be a problem, but I'm not sure how this would stop it. > > ptrace uses perf for hwbp support so we're stuck with all kinds of > stupid ptrace constraints.. or somesuch.
OK > > Are you saying that we need to keep at least 1 slot free at all times, > > so that we can use it for ptrace? > > No, I'm saying perf-hwbp is weird because of ptrace, maybe the ptrace > weirdness shouldn't live in perf-hwpb but in the ptrace-perf glue > however.. OK. > > Is "perf record -e mem:0x10000000 true" ever going to be able to work on > > POWER7 with only one hw breakpoint resource per CPU? > > I think it should work... but I'm fairly sure it currently doesn't > because of how things are done. 'perf record -ie mem:0x100... true' > might just work. Adding -i doesn't help. Mikey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
