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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-06-29 18:42:35 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-07-01 11:06:38 +0200
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parent89d6c0b5bdbb1927775584dcf532d98b3efe1477 (diff)
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perf: Add context field to perf_event
The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0c9b1054f790..5c199610719f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ static struct perf_event *ptrace_hbp_create(struct task_struct *tsk, int type)
attr.bp_type = type;
attr.disabled = 1;
- return register_user_hw_breakpoint(&attr, ptrace_hbptriggered, tsk);
+ return register_user_hw_breakpoint(&attr, ptrace_hbptriggered, NULL,
+ tsk);
}
static int ptrace_gethbpregs(struct task_struct *tsk, long num,
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