[PATCH] powerpc/xmon: Fix data-breakpoint

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 22 20:25:59 AEDT 2016


Xmon data-breakpoint feature is broken.

Whenever there is a watchpoint match occurs, hw_breakpoint_handler will
be called by do_break via notifier chains mechanism. If watchpoint is
registered by xmon, hw_breakpoint_handler won't find any associated
perf_event and returns immediately with NOTIFY_STOP. Similarly, do_break
also returns without notifying to xmon.

Solve this by returning NOTIFY_DONE when hw_breakpoint_handler does not
find any perf_event associated with matched watchpoint.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 03d089b..469d86d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -228,8 +228,10 @@ int hw_breakpoint_handler(struct die_args *args)
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
 	bp = __this_cpu_read(bp_per_reg);
-	if (!bp)
+	if (!bp) {
+		rc = NOTIFY_DONE;
 		goto out;
+	}
 	info = counter_arch_bp(bp);
 
 	/*
-- 
1.8.3.1



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