Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 08 2013 - 16:05:38 EST


On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:55:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 1) make breakpoints independant from perf. The drawback is that we must then
> add seperate hooks on context switch for ptrace breakpoints. OTOH we get
> rid of the perf -> breakpoint -> perf circular dependency, which is the very
> controversial thing.

we used to have this in __switch_to_xtra(), right?
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