Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

2010-01-18 Thread K.Prasad
-breakpoint register (like older PPC64 with 1 IABR) in the system. If one process/thread consumes it, then all other contenders (from both kernel and user-space) are prevented from acquiring it. Also to mention the existence of processors with no support for instruction breakpoints. Thanks, K.Prasad

Re: x86: do_debug PTRACE_SINGLESTEP broken by 08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f

2009-12-18 Thread K.Prasad
(). Thanks, K.Prasad

Re: x86: do_debug PTRACE_SINGLESTEP broken by 08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f

2009-12-18 Thread K.Prasad
prasadkr]# Am I missing something here? Thanks, K.Prasad

Re: Tests Failures on PPC64

2009-12-11 Thread K.Prasad
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 12/11, K.Prasad wrote: Watchpoints (using DABR) through GDB can fail for many reasonsthey must ideally be set after the program has started execution - to enable GDB know the size of the variable...else they would resort

Re: Tests Failures on PPC64

2009-12-10 Thread K.Prasad
-stepping to trap access to the target variable. Cai, Where can one find the relevant piece of testcase? Thanks, K.Prasad

Re: The demise of utracer.

2008-07-01 Thread K.Prasad
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, Chris Moller wrote: K.Prasad wrote: Hi All, Sorry if I have missed out something I need to know before I respond to this email. But the trace infrastructure (lib/trace.c) already provides such a facility which more features such as per-cpu