Re: [PATCH] ARM/hw_breakpoint: modify dead code for breakpoint_handler()

From: Will Deacon
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 12:43:25 EST


On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:27:00PM +0800, wangxu wrote:
> From: Wang Xu <wangxu72@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In perf_event_alloc(), event->overflow_handler is initialized to a
> non-null value, which makes enable_single_step(bp, addr) in
> breakpoint_handler() never be executed.
>
> As a matter of fact, the branch condition has been updated to
> is_default_overflow_handler().
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Xu <wangxu72@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> index b0c195e..586a587 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ static void breakpoint_handler(unsigned long unknown, struct pt_regs *regs)
> info->trigger = addr;
> pr_debug("breakpoint fired: address = 0x%x\n", addr);
> perf_bp_event(bp, regs);
> - if (!bp->overflow_handler)
> + if (is_default_overflow_handler(bp))
> enable_single_step(bp, addr);
> goto unlock;

Seems to match what we do on arm64, so:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

You'll need to put this into rmk's patch system [1].

Will

[1] https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/