Re: [PATCH 0/6] hw_breakpoint: Let the user choose not to build it(and perf too)

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue May 03 2011 - 07:40:46 EST


On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 17:59 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Frederic,

> Until now, x86 and superh32 had to always build hw_breakpoint and perf.
> And powerpc and arm were always building hw_breakpoints when perf
> was enabled.
>
> After this patchset, one can simply disable hw_breakpoints if he
> selected CONFIG_EXPERT. Afterward the user is free to select perf
> or not. Except on SH unfortunately because that would require a
> bit of change in ptrace to support singlestep failures.

For the ARM bits:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Will

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