perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier

When using early debugging, the kernel does not initialize the
hw_breakpoint API early enough and causes the late initialization of
the kernel debugger to fail. The boot arguments are:

    earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait

Then simply type "go" at the kdb prompt and boot. The kernel will
later emit the message:

    kgdb: Could not allocate hwbreakpoints

And at that point the kernel debugger will cease to work correctly.

The solution is to initialize the hw_breakpoint at the same time that
all the other perf call backs are initialized instead of using a
core_initcall() initialization which happens well after the kernel
debugger can make use of hardware breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
index a2d6ea49ec56..d1e55fed2c7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ enum bp_type_idx {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
 
+extern int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void);
+
 static inline void hw_breakpoint_init(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
 {
 	memset(attr, 0, sizeof(*attr));
@@ -108,6 +110,8 @@ static inline struct arch_hw_breakpoint *counter_arch_bp(struct perf_event *bp)
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
 
+static inline int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void) { return 0; }
+
 static inline struct perf_event *
 register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
 			    perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,