[tip:perf/urgent] perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier

From: tip-bot for Jason Wessel
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 09:05:30 EST


Commit-ID: 3c502e7a0255d82621ff25d60cc816624830497e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3c502e7a0255d82621ff25d60cc816624830497e
Author: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:33:01 -0500
Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:51:55 +0100

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h | 4 ++++
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 3 +--
kernel/perf_event.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
index a2d6ea4..d1e55fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ enum bp_type_idx {

#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT

+extern int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void);
+
static inline void hw_breakpoint_init(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
memset(attr, 0, sizeof(*attr));
@@ -108,6 +110,8 @@ static inline struct arch_hw_breakpoint *counter_arch_bp(struct perf_event *bp)

#else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */

+static inline int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void) { return 0; }
+
static inline struct perf_event *
register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 2c9120f..e532582 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
.read = hw_breakpoint_pmu_read,
};

-static int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
+int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
{
unsigned int **task_bp_pinned;
int cpu, err_cpu;
@@ -655,6 +655,5 @@ static int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)

return -ENOMEM;
}
-core_initcall(init_hw_breakpoint);


diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 517d827..05b7d8c 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/ftrace_event.h>
+#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>

#include <asm/irq_regs.h>

@@ -6295,6 +6296,8 @@ perf_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)

void __init perf_event_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
+
perf_event_init_all_cpus();
init_srcu_struct(&pmus_srcu);
perf_pmu_register(&perf_swevent);
@@ -6302,4 +6305,7 @@ void __init perf_event_init(void)
perf_pmu_register(&perf_task_clock);
perf_tp_register();
perf_cpu_notifier(perf_cpu_notify);
+
+ ret = init_hw_breakpoint();
+ WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret);
}
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