Re: Process-wide watchpoints

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:29 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 09:50:20AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > Or, alternatively would it be reasonable for perf to generate SIGTRAP
> > directly on watchpoint hit (like ptrace does)? That's what I am
> > ultimately trying to do by attaching a bpf program.
>
> Perf should be able to generate signals, The perf_event_open manpage
> lists two ways of trigering signals. The second way doesn't work for
> you, due to it not working on inherited counters, but would the first
> work?
>
> That is, set attr::wakeup_events and fcntl(F_SETSIG).

The problem is that this sends a signal to the fd owner rather than
the thread that hit the breakpoint. At least that's what happened in
our tests. We would like to send a signal to the thread that hit the
breakpoint.