hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpoints
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:55:54 +0000 (04:55 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:22:59 +0000 (06:22 +0100)
commitdd1853c3f493f6d22d9e5390b192a07b73d2ac0a
treeaf87226bcdc254ce2ab656530263e61f6552322b
parent5fa10b28e57f94a90535cfeafe89dcee9f47d540
hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpoints

Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass
breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length
and type.

Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
architectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.

Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c
samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c