From 605bfaee9078cd0b01d83402315389839ee4bb5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:35:42 +0100 Subject: hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests 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 Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Prasad LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c index 9f040e4..c538b15 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c @@ -200,12 +200,9 @@ int process_new_ksym_entry(char *ksymname, int op, unsigned long addr) entry->ksym_hbp = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr, entry->len, entry->type, ksym_hbp_handler, true); + if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp)) { - entry->ksym_hbp = NULL; ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp); - } - - if (!entry->ksym_hbp) { printk(KERN_INFO "ksym_tracer request failed. Try again" " later!!\n"); goto err; @@ -332,21 +329,16 @@ static ssize_t ksym_trace_filter_write(struct file *file, if (changed) { unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_hbp); entry->type = op; + ret = 0; if (op > 0) { entry->ksym_hbp = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr, entry->len, entry->type, ksym_hbp_handler, true); if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp)) - entry->ksym_hbp = NULL; - - /* modified without problem */ - if (entry->ksym_hbp) { - ret = 0; + ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp); + else goto out; - } - } else { - ret = 0; } /* Error or "symbol:---" case: drop it */ ksym_filter_entry_count--; -- cgit v1.1