[PATCH] Disable record btrace bts support for AMD processors

Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
Fri May 15 00:40:29 GMT 2020


On Thu, 14 May 2020 17:18:31 -0500
Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:55 PM Kevin Buettner via Gdb-patches
> <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
> > This commit disables "btrace record bts" support in GDB for AMD
> > processors.  
> 
> Do tests not require changes? I guess they already know to handle the
> error and treat it as unsupported?

Yes, that's right.

The fact that "btrace record" silently succeeded when it was in fact
not working is what led to the btrace tests being run when they
shouldn't have been.

Kevin



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