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hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback

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struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint
triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty
tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf
as it triggers even when we don't overflow.

We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events
rules, being called only when we overflow.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-05 09:44:31 +01:00
parent 2f0993e0fb
commit b326e9560a
8 changed files with 48 additions and 57 deletions
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samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c
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@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ module_param_string(ksym, ksym_name, KSYM_NAME_LEN, S_IRUGO);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ksym, "Kernel symbol to monitor; this module will report any"
" write operations on the kernel symbol");
static void sample_hbp_handler(struct perf_event *temp, void *data)
static void sample_hbp_handler(struct perf_event *bp, int nmi,
struct perf_sample_data *data,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
printk(KERN_INFO "%s value is changed\n", ksym_name);
dump_stack();
@@ -51,8 +53,9 @@ static void sample_hbp_handler(struct perf_event *temp, void *data)
static int __init hw_break_module_init(void)
{
int ret;
DEFINE_BREAKPOINT_ATTR(attr);
struct perf_event_attr attr;
hw_breakpoint_init(&attr);
attr.bp_addr = kallsyms_lookup_name(ksym_name);
attr.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4;
attr.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_W | HW_BREAKPOINT_R;