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Peter Zijlstra
2e80a82a49 perf: Dynamic pmu types
Extend the perf_pmu_register() interface to allow for named and
dynamic pmu types.

Because we need to support the existing static types we cannot use
dynamic types for everything, hence provide a type argument.

If we want to enumerate the PMUs they need a name, provide one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101117222056.259707703@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-16 11:36:43 +01:00
Jason Wessel
3c502e7a02 perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier
When using early debugging, the kernel does not initialize the
hw_breakpoint API early enough and causes the late initialization of
the kernel debugger to fail. The boot arguments are:

    earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait

Then simply type "go" at the kdb prompt and boot. The kernel will
later emit the message:

    kgdb: Could not allocate hwbreakpoints

And at that point the kernel debugger will cease to work correctly.

The solution is to initialize the hw_breakpoint at the same time that
all the other perf call backs are initialized instead of using a
core_initcall() initialization which happens well after the kernel
debugger can make use of hardware breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-11-12 14:51:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
d580ff8699 perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
hw_breakpoint creation needs to account stuff per-task to ensure there
is always sufficient hardware resources to back these things due to
ptrace.

With the perf per pmu context changes the event initialization no
longer has access to the event context, for the simple reason that we
need to first find the pmu (result of initialization) before we can
find the context.

This makes hw_breakpoints unhappy, because it can no longer do per
task accounting, cure this by frobbing a task pointer in the event::hw
bits for now...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.391543667@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 19:58:55 +02:00
Matt Helsley
38a81da220 perf events: Clean up pid passing
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid()
because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses
current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use
for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and
thus find_get_context()) is called.

The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like:

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281

Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct
pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to
a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall
much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15 10:44:00 +02:00
Matt Helsley
d958077d00 hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces
because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current
namespace.

(See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 )

This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the
best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally
is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches
will show a better solution.

Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the
bulk of the work finding this bug.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15 10:43:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
89a1e18731 perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents
Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with
hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities.

Giving them their own context solves this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a4eaf7f146 perf: Rework the PMU methods
Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.

The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while
keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with
the generic stopped state.

This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain
code paths (like IRQ handlers).

It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for
a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters).

The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on
how the architecture implemented the throttled state:

 1) We disable the counter:
    a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that
    b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state

 2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b0a873ebbf perf: Register PMU implementations
Simple registration interface for struct pmu, this provides the
infrastructure for removing all the weak functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
45a73372ef hw_breakpoints: Fix per task breakpoint tracking
Freeing a perf event can happen in several ways. A task
calls perf_event_exit_task() right before exiting. This helper
will detach all the events from the task context and queue their
removal through free_event() if they are child tasks. The task
also loses its context reference there.

Releasing the breakpoint slot from the constraint table is made
from free_event() that calls release_bp_slot(). We count the number
of breakpoints this task is running by looking at the task's
perf_event_ctxp and iterating through its attached events.
But at this time, the reference to this context has been cleaned up
already.

So looking at the event->ctx instead of task->perf_event_ctxp
to count the remaining breakpoints should solve the problem.
At least it would for child breakpoints, but not for parent ones.
If the parent exits before the child, it will remove all its
events from the context but free_event() will be called later,
on fd release time. And checking the number of breakpoints the
task has attached to its context at this time is unreliable as all
events have been removed from the context.

To solve this, we keep track of the list of per task breakpoints.
On top of it, we maintain our array of numbers of breakpoints used
by the tasks. We use the context address as a task id.

So, instead of looking at the number of events attached to a context,
we walk through our list of per task breakpoints and count the number
of breakpoints that use the same ctx than the one to be reserved or
released from the constraint table, and update the count on top of this
result.

In the meantime it solves a bad refcounting, it also solves a warning,
reported by Paul.

Badness at /home/paulus/kernel/perf/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:114
NIP: c0000000000cb470 LR: c0000000000cb46c CTR: c00000000032d9b8
REGS: c000000118e7b570 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.35-rc3-perf-00008-g76b0f13
)
MSR: 9000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 44004424  XER: 000fffff
TASK = c0000001187dcad0[3143] 'perf' THREAD: c000000118e78000 CPU: 1
GPR00: c0000000000cb46c c000000118e7b7f0 c0000000009866a0 0000000000000020
GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001d 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
GPR08: c0000000009bed68 c00000000086dff8 c000000000a5bf10 0000000000000001
GPR12: 0000000024004422 c00000000ffff200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 00000000101150f4
GPR20: 0000000010206b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000101150f4
GPR24: c0000001199090c0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000008ec290 0000000000000000
NIP [c0000000000cb470] .task_bp_pinned+0x5c/0x12c
LR [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c
Call Trace:
[c000000118e7b7f0] [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c (unreliable)
[c000000118e7b8a0] [c0000000000cb584] .toggle_bp_task_slot+0x44/0xe4
[c000000118e7b940] [c0000000000cb6c8] .toggle_bp_slot+0xa4/0x164
[c000000118e7b9f0] [c0000000000cbafc] .release_bp_slot+0x44/0x6c
[c000000118e7ba80] [c0000000000c4178] .bp_perf_event_destroy+0x10/0x24
[c000000118e7bb00] [c0000000000c4aec] .free_event+0x180/0x1bc
[c000000118e7bbc0] [c0000000000c54c4] .perf_event_release_kernel+0x14c/0x170

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-06-24 23:33:40 +02:00
K.Prasad
f7136c5150 hw_breakpoints: Allow arch-specific cleanup before breakpoint unregistration
Certain architectures (such as PowerPC) have a need to clean up data
structures before a breakpoint is unregistered.  This introduces an
arch-specific hook in release_bp_slot() along with a weak definition
in the form of a stub function.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
Frederic Weisbecker
777d0411cd hw_breakpoints: Fix percpu build failure
Fix this build error:

   kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:58:1: error: pasting "__pcpu_scope_" and "*" does not give a valid preprocessing token

It happens if CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU, because we concatenate
someting with the name and we have the "*" in the name.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100503133942.GA5497@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-04 08:39:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
feef47d0cb hw-breakpoints: Get the number of available registers on boot dynamically
The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance
the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints
through the HBP_NUM macro.

However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get
this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between
different versions.

To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro
and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a
new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have
CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once
as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints
together.
For the others it will be called first to get the number of
instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the
data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a
parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots().

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:14 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f93a205411 hw-breakpoints: Handle breakpoint weight in allocation constraints
Depending on their nature and on what an arch supports, breakpoints
may consume more than one address register. For example a simple
absolute address match usually only requires one address register.
But an address range match may consume two registers.

Currently our slot allocation constraints, that tend to reflect the
limited arch's resources, always consider that a breakpoint consumes
one slot.

Then provide a way for archs to tell us the weight of a breakpoint
through a new hw_breakpoint_weight() helper. This weight will be
computed against the generic allocation constraints instead of
a constant value.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0102752e4c hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints
There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware
breakpoints.

The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition
space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have
typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers
and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with
separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints
as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example.

The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space
definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address
registers can host either instruction or data address and
the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control
register. This is the case of x86 and Super H.

This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config
that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those
will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and
data breakpoints.

The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and
instruction breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b2812d031d hw-breakpoints: Change/Enforce some breakpoints policies
The current policies of breakpoints in x86 and SH are the following:

- task bound breakpoints can only break on userspace addresses
- cpu wide breakpoints can only break on kernel addresses

The former rule prevents ptrace breakpoints to be set to trigger on
kernel addresses, which is good. But as a side effect, we can't
breakpoint on kernel addresses for task bound breakpoints.

The latter rule simply makes no sense, there is no reason why we
can't set breakpoints on userspace while performing cpu bound
profiles.

We want the following new policies:

- task bound breakpoint can set userspace address breakpoints, with
no particular privilege required.
- task bound breakpoints can set kernelspace address breakpoints but
must be privileged to do that.
- cpu bound breakpoints can do what they want as they are privileged
already.

To implement these new policies, this patch checks if we are dealing
with a kernel address breakpoint, if so and if the exclude_kernel
parameter is set, we tell the user that the breakpoint is invalid,
which makes a good generic ptrace protection.
If we don't have exclude_kernel, ensure the user has the right
privileges as kernel breakpoints are quite sensitive (risk of
trap recursion attacks and global performance impacts).

[ Paul Mundt: keep addr space check for sh signal delivery and fix
  double function declaration]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-05-01 04:32:10 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
87e9b20246 hw-breakpoints: Check disabled breakpoints again
We stopped checking disabled breakpoints because we weren't
allowing breakpoints on NULL addresses. And gdb tends to set
NULL addresses on inactive breakpoints.

But refusing NULL addresses was actually a regression that has
been fixed now. There is no reason anymore to not validate
inactive breakpoint settings.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4f16d4e0c9 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: Switch from pre-merge topical split to the post-merge urgent track

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-04 11:47:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1e259e0a99 hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback
We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means
that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ,
perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next
tick.

So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which
breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every
triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set
sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1.

This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint
events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-02-28 20:51:15 +01:00
Tejun Heo
44ee63587d percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will
trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse.  Changing it to
&per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but
deemed to ugly by the maintainer.  Leave it alone until better
solution can be found.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-27 16:23:39 +01:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
cd757645fb perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as
the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64.

reference:
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212

This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with
the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this
development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for
versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a
kernel based on this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-04 01:07:12 +01:00
Jason Wessel
5352ae638e perf, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the
kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw
breakpoint reservations.

The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it
can start the kernel running from an invalid context.

A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get
created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint
reservations.

The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently
processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is
improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is
warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the
hardware breakpoint reservations.

Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it
will be a system wide reservation.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-30 08:42:21 +01:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
b23ff0e933 hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails
due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp
slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot
on failure.
Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing
with 'no space left on device' error.

This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint()
function and releases bp slot on error.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-28 14:15:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b21c070403 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()
  tracing/syscalls: Fix typo in SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files
  ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat
  ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count
  ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter
  ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
  tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups
  tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options
  Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt
  Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt
  Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
2009-12-31 11:52:01 -08:00
Li Zefan
88f7a890d7 ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
ksym tracer doesn't work:

 # echo tasklist_lock:rw- > ksym_trace_filter
 -bash: echo: write error: No such device

It's because we pass to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
a cpu number which is not present.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B3AF19E.1010201@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 07:50:47 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
e625cce1b7 perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlock
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 23:55:34 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
44234adcdc hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them
Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling
it, changing its address, type or len, it calls
modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and
racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new
one.

This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint
slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only
supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging
workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle.

So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just
disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it
after if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 09:48:20 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
6ab8886326 perf: hw_breakpoints: Fix percpu namespace clash
Today's linux-next build failed with:

  kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:86: error: 'task_bp_pinned' redeclared as different kind of symbol
  ...

Caused by commit dd17c8f729 ("percpu:
remove per_cpu__ prefix") from the percpu tree interacting with
commit 56053170ea ("hw-breakpoints:
Fix task-bound breakpoint slot allocation") from the tip tree.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091208182515.bb6dda4a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-08 09:34:43 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
56053170ea hw-breakpoints: Fix task-bound breakpoint slot allocation
Whatever the context nature of a breakpoint, we always perform the
following constraint checks before allocating it a slot:

- Check the number of pinned breakpoint bound the concerned cpus
- Check the max number of task-bound breakpoints that are belonging
  to a task.
- Add both and see if we have a reamining slot for the new breakpoint

This is the right thing to do when we are about to register a cpu-only
bound breakpoint. But not if we are dealing with a task bound
breakpoint. What we want in this case is:

- Check the number of pinned breakpoint bound the concerned cpus
- Check the number of breakpoints that already belong to the task
  in which the breakpoint to register is bound to.
- Add both

This fixes a regression that makes the "firefox -g" command fail to
register breakpoints once we deal with a secondary thread.

Reported-by: Walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-12-07 07:05:28 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b326e9560a hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback
struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint
triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty
tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf
as it triggers even when we don't overflow.

We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events
rules, being called only when we overflow.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-12-06 08:27:18 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2f0993e0fb hw-breakpoints: Drop callback and task parameters from modify helper
Drop the callback and task parameters from modify_user_hw_breakpoint().
For now we have no user that need to modify a breakpoint to the point
of changing its handler or its task context.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-12-06 08:27:17 +01:00
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
5fa10b28e5 hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define user breakpoints
In-kernel user 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
archictectures 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: <1259294154-5197-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27 06:22:58 +01:00
Andrew Morton
11e6635763 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c: Fix local/global shadowing
If the new percpu tree is combined with the perf events tree
the following new warning triggers:

 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c: In function 'toggle_bp_task_slot':
 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:151: warning: 'task_bp_pinned' is used uninitialized in this function

Because it's not valid anymore to define a local variable
and a percpu variable (even if it's file scope local) with
the same name.

Rename the local variable to resolve this.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <200911260701.nAQ71owx016356@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
[ v2: added changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:34:04 +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
Frederic Weisbecker
fdf6bc9522 hw-breakpoints: Check the breakpoint params from perf tools
Perf tools create perf events as disabled in the beginning.
Breakpoints are then considered like ptrace temporary
breakpoints, only meant to reserve a breakpoint slot until we
get all the necessary informations from the user.

In this case, we don't check the address that is breakpointed as
it is NULL in the ptrace case.

But perf tools don't have the same purpose, events are created
disabled to wait for all events to be created before enabling
all of them. We want to check the breakpoint parameters in this
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: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23 18:18:30 +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
b3a75542d3 hw-breakpoints: Remove x86 specific headers from core file
Remove asm/processor.h and asm/debugreg.h as these headers are
not used anymore in the hw-breakpoints core file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22 09:03:43 +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
Frederic Weisbecker
ba1c813a6b hw-breakpoints: Arbitrate access to pmu following registers constraints
Allow or refuse to build a counter using the breakpoints pmu following
given constraints.

We keep track of the pmu users by using three per cpu variables:

- nr_cpu_bp_pinned stores the number of pinned cpu breakpoints counters
  in the given cpu

- nr_bp_flexible stores the number of non-pinned breakpoints counters
  in the given cpu.

- task_bp_pinned stores the number of pinned task breakpoints in a cpu

The latter is not a simple counter but gathers the number of tasks that
have n pinned breakpoints.
Considering HBP_NUM the number of available breakpoint address
registers:
   task_bp_pinned[0] is the number of tasks having 1 breakpoint
   task_bp_pinned[1] is the number of tasks having 2 breakpoints
   [...]
   task_bp_pinned[HBP_NUM - 1] is the number of tasks having the
   maximum number of registers (HBP_NUM).

When a breakpoint counter is created and wants an access to the pmu,
we evaluate the following constraints:

== Non-pinned counter ==

- If attached to a single cpu, check:

    (per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, cpu) || (per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, cpu)
         + max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, cpu)))) < HBP_NUM

       -> If there are already non-pinned counters in this cpu, it
          means there is already a free slot for them.
          Otherwise, we check that the maximum number of per task
          breakpoints (for this cpu) plus the number of per cpu
          breakpoint (for this cpu) doesn't cover every registers.

- If attached to every cpus, check:

    (per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, *) || (max(per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, *))
           + max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, *)))) < HBP_NUM

       -> This is roughly the same, except we check the number of per
          cpu bp for every cpu and we keep the max one. Same for the
          per tasks breakpoints.

== Pinned counter ==

- If attached to a single cpu, check:

       ((per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, cpu) > 1)
            + per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, cpu)
            + max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, cpu))) < HBP_NUM

       -> Same checks as before. But now the nr_bp_flexible, if any,
          must keep one register at least (or flexible breakpoints will
          never be be fed).

- If attached to every cpus, check:

      ((per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, *) > 1)
           + max(per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, *))
           + max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, *))) < HBP_NUM

Changes in v2:

- Counter -> event rename

Changes in v5:

- Fix unreleased non-pinned task-bound-only counters. We only released
  it in the first cpu. (Thanks to Paul Mackerras for reporting that)

Changes in v6:

- Currently, events scheduling are done in this order: cpu context
  pinned + cpu context non-pinned + task context pinned + task context
  non-pinned events. Then our current constraints are right theoretically
  but not in practice, because non-pinned counters may be scheduled
  before we can apply every possible pinned counters. So consider
  non-pinned counters as pinned for now.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 16:20:47 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
K.Prasad
62a038d34d hw-breakpoints: introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user
and kernel space requests.
This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It
handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of
arch implementation.

One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers
and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint:

- register_kernel_hw_breakpoint()
- unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint()
- modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint()

On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints.

- register_user_hw_breakpoint()
- unregister_user_hw_breakpoint()
- modify_user_hw_breakpoint()

[ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ]

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:58 +02:00