[tip:perf/core] x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute

From: tip-bot for Jason Wessel
Date: Fri Apr 02 2010 - 15:06:46 EST


Commit-ID: ab310b5edb8b601bcb02491ed6f7676da4fd1757
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ab310b5edb8b601bcb02491ed6f7676da4fd1757
Author: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:05:07 -0500
Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:26:32 +0200

x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute

It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it
in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes
fail to initialize on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: 2.6.33 <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1269975907-27602-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
index bfba601..b2258ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -618,8 +618,8 @@ int kgdb_arch_init(void)
* portion of kgdb because this operation requires mutexs to
* complete.
*/
+ hw_breakpoint_init(&attr);
attr.bp_addr = (unsigned long)kgdb_arch_init;
- attr.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT;
attr.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_1;
attr.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_W;
attr.disabled = 1;
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