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* hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpointsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-271-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across architectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requestsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-261-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint. We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to always return an error code in the failure case. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoint: Attribute authorship of hw-breakpoint related filesK.Prasad2009-11-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Attribute authorship to developers of hw-breakpoint related files. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091123154713.GA5593@in.ibm.com> [ v2: moved it to latest -tip ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Fix broken hw-breakpoint sample moduleFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-101-19/+24
| | | | | | | | | The hw-breakpoint sample module has been broken during the hw-breakpoint internals refactoring. Propagate the changes to it. Reported-by: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* hw-breakpoints: sample HW breakpoint over kernel data addressK.Prasad2009-06-022-0/+84
This patch introduces a sample kernel module to demonstrate the use of Hardware Breakpoint feature. It places a breakpoint over the kernel variable 'pid_max' to monitor all write operations and emits a function-backtrace when done. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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