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hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests

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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>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-26 05:35:42 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent c6567f642e
commit 605bfaee90
4 changed files with 8 additions and 25 deletions
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samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c
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@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ static int __init hw_break_module_init(void)
if (IS_ERR(sample_hbp)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(sample_hbp);
goto fail;
} else if (!sample_hbp) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto fail;
}
printk(KERN_INFO "HW Breakpoint for %s write installed\n", ksym_name);