Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Modify breakpoint even if the new attr has disabled set

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 09:47:04 EST


On 08/06, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> > Afaics you do not need to clear attr.disabled, modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check()
> > updates it if err = 0. So I think
> >
> > if (!bp->attr.disabled)
> > perf_event_enable(bp);
> >
> > will look a bit better.
> >
> >
> > But, with or without this fix, shouldn't we set .disabled = 1 if modify_() fails?
> > IIUC this doesn't matter, bp->attr.disabled is not really used anyway, but looks a
> > bit confusing.
> >
>
> yea, I was looking on that, but as u said it makes no difference
> and I wanted to keep the patch as simple as possible ;-)

OK. So both patches look good to me.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>