From d580ff8699e8811a9af37e9de4dea375401bdeec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:43:23 +0200 Subject: perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation hw_breakpoint creation needs to account stuff per-task to ensure there is always sufficient hardware resources to back these things due to ptrace. With the perf per pmu context changes the event initialization no longer has access to the event context, for the simple reason that we need to first find the pmu (result of initialization) before we can find the context. This makes hw_breakpoints unhappy, because it can no longer do per task accounting, cure this by frobbing a task pointer in the event::hw bits for now... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.391543667@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 2ebfc9ae475..97965fac55f 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -536,6 +536,12 @@ struct hw_perf_event { struct { /* breakpoint */ struct arch_hw_breakpoint info; struct list_head bp_list; + /* + * Crufty hack to avoid the chicken and egg + * problem hw_breakpoint has with context + * creation and event initalization. + */ + struct task_struct *bp_target; }; #endif }; @@ -693,6 +699,7 @@ struct swevent_hlist { #define PERF_ATTACH_CONTEXT 0x01 #define PERF_ATTACH_GROUP 0x02 +#define PERF_ATTACH_TASK 0x04 /** * struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation: -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2