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Frederic Weisbecker
dd1853c3f4 hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpoints 
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>
 2009-11-27 06:22:59 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
605bfaee90 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 <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>
 2009-11-26 09:29:21 +01:00
K.Prasad
ba6909b719 hw-breakpoint: Attribute authorship of hw-breakpoint related files 
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>
 2009-11-23 18:18:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f60d24d2ad hw-breakpoints: Fix broken hw-breakpoint sample module 
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>
 2009-11-10 11:23:29 +01:00
K.Prasad
432039933a hw-breakpoints: sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address 
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>
 2009-06-02 22:47:00 +02:00