Re: [patch 16/16] Add hardware breakpoint support for i386

From: Tom Rini
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 09:39:38 EST


On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:23:39PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > This adds hardware breakpoint support for i386. This is not as well tested as
> > software breakpoints, but in some minimal testing appears to be functional.
>
> This really would need so coordination with user space using
> them. Otherwise it'll be quite unreliable because any user program
> can break it.

Probably easiest to just drop this for now then, thanks.

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Tom Rini
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