From 1e259e0a9982078896f3404240096cbea01daca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:51:15 +0100 Subject: hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ, perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next tick. So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1. This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: 2.6.33.x Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Paul Mackerras --- kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index 967e66143e11..4d99512ee149 100644 --- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -489,5 +489,4 @@ struct pmu perf_ops_bp = { .enable = arch_install_hw_breakpoint, .disable = arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint, .read = hw_breakpoint_pmu_read, - .unthrottle = hw_breakpoint_pmu_unthrottle }; -- cgit v1.2.1