Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf/hw_breakpoint: Enable breakpoint in modify_user_hw_breakpoint

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Aug 17 2018 - 10:50:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:47:29PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Currently we enable the breakpoint back only if the breakpoint
> modification was successful. If it fails we can leave the
> breakpoint in disabled state with attr->disabled == 0.
>
> We can safely enable the breakpoint back for both the fail
> and success paths by checking the bp->attr.disabled, which
> either holds the new 'requested' disabled state or the
> original breakpoint state.
>
> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79p9ttocwy2ju2s6qh25dvre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot!