hw-breakpoints: Check the breakpoint params from perf tools

Perf tools create perf events as disabled in the beginning.
Breakpoints are then considered like ptrace temporary
breakpoints, only meant to reserve a breakpoint slot until we
get all the necessary informations from the user.

In this case, we don't check the address that is breakpointed as
it is NULL in the ptrace case.

But perf tools don't have the same purpose, events are created
disabled to wait for all events to be created before enabling
all of them. We want to check the breakpoint parameters in this
case.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index c16662268d7..06d372fc026 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -267,7 +267,16 @@ int __register_perf_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (!bp->attr.disabled)
+	/*
+	 * Ptrace breakpoints can be temporary perf events only
+	 * meant to reserve a slot. In this case, it is created disabled and
+	 * we don't want to check the params right now (as we put a null addr)
+	 * But perf tools create events as disabled and we want to check
+	 * the params for them.
+	 * This is a quick hack that will be removed soon, once we remove
+	 * the tmp breakpoints from ptrace
+	 */
+	if (!bp->attr.disabled || bp->callback == perf_bp_event)
 		ret = arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(bp, bp->ctx->task);
 
 	return ret;