Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 2021 13:29:50 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: Process-wide watchpoints |
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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).
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