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hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:44:31 +0000 (09:44 +0100)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sun, 6 Dec 2009 07:27:18 +0000 (08:27 +0100)
commit452ec7cc1e740d0954d2b5b0d0fa892463a18331
tree0804c8c4f28d4ae152d5e9205ce5a958f0d26b79
parent0612d9366b5b34fbfc6c239922aecfa677237fca
hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback

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>
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
kernel/perf_event.c
kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c
samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c