From 44ee63587dce85593c22497140db16f4e5027860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:50:50 +0900 Subject: percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse. Changing it to &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but deemed to ugly by the maintainer. Leave it alone until better solution can be found. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: K.Prasad LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/hw_breakpoint.c') diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index 967e66143e11..6542eacb3fa5 100644 --- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -413,17 +413,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_hw_breakpoint); * * @return a set of per_cpu pointers to perf events */ -struct perf_event ** +struct perf_event * __percpu * register_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, perf_overflow_handler_t triggered) { - struct perf_event **cpu_events, **pevent, *bp; + struct perf_event * __percpu *cpu_events, **pevent, *bp; long err; int cpu; cpu_events = alloc_percpu(typeof(*cpu_events)); if (!cpu_events) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return (void __percpu __force *)ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ fail: put_online_cpus(); free_percpu(cpu_events); - return ERR_PTR(err); + return (void __percpu __force *)ERR_PTR(err); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_wide_hw_breakpoint); @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_wide_hw_breakpoint); * unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint - unregister a wide breakpoint in the kernel * @cpu_events: the per cpu set of events to unregister */ -void unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event **cpu_events) +void unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event * __percpu *cpu_events) { int cpu; struct perf_event **pevent; -- cgit v1.2.1 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/hw_breakpoint.c') 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