This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-hwbp-simplify-the-perf-hwbp-code-fix-documentation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:39:07 -1000
Subject: perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f upstream.
Annoyingly, modify_user_hw_breakpoint() unnecessarily complicates the
modification of a breakpoint - simplify it and remove the pointless
local variables.
Also update the stale Docbook while at it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 30 +++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -427,16 +427,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_break
* modify_user_hw_breakpoint - modify a user-space hardware breakpoint
* @bp: the breakpoint structure to modify
* @attr: new breakpoint attributes
- * @triggered: callback to trigger when we hit the breakpoint
- * @tsk: pointer to 'task_struct' of the process to which the address belongs
*/
int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
- u64 old_addr = bp->attr.bp_addr;
- u64 old_len = bp->attr.bp_len;
- int old_type = bp->attr.bp_type;
- int err = 0;
-
/*
* modify_user_hw_breakpoint can be invoked with IRQs disabled and hence it
* will not be possible to raise IPIs that invoke __perf_event_disable.
@@ -451,27 +444,18 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct per
bp->attr.bp_addr = attr->bp_addr;
bp->attr.bp_type = attr->bp_type;
bp->attr.bp_len = attr->bp_len;
+ bp->attr.disabled = 1;
- if (attr->disabled)
- goto end;
-
- err = validate_hw_breakpoint(bp);
- if (!err)
- perf_event_enable(bp);
+ if (!attr->disabled) {
+ int err = validate_hw_breakpoint(bp);
- if (err) {
- bp->attr.bp_addr = old_addr;
- bp->attr.bp_type = old_type;
- bp->attr.bp_len = old_len;
- if (!bp->attr.disabled)
- perf_event_enable(bp);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
- return err;
+ perf_event_enable(bp);
+ bp->attr.disabled = 0;
}
-end:
- bp->attr.disabled = attr->disabled;
-
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(modify_user_hw_breakpoint);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/tty-vt-fix-up-tabstops-properly.patch
queue-3.18/perf-hwbp-simplify-the-perf-hwbp-code-fix-documentation.patch
queue-3.18/kvm-x86-fix-icebp-instruction-handling.patch