Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch (as839) implements the Kwatch (kernel-space hardware-based 
> watchpoints) API for the i386 architecture.  The API is explained in 
> the kerneldoc for register_kwatch() in arch/i386/kernel/kwatch.c.

i think it would be nice to have this ontop of Roland's utrace 
infrastructure, which nicely modularizes all hardware debugging 
capabilities and detaches it from ptrace.

	Ingo
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