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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-02-27 17:24:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-02-27 17:24:15 +0100 |
| commit | 3d083407a16698de86b42aee0da2ffb280b5cb7e (patch) | |
| tree | de79bd42440a9057179d66013251157f1b76571f /arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | |
| parent | dd8b1cf681eab40bc5afb67bdd06b2ca341f5669 (diff) | |
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x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field
Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal
with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever
store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86
breakpoint backend.
Let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index dca2802c666f..41e08dff0161 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -344,13 +344,6 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp, } /* - * For kernel-addresses, either the address or symbol name can be - * specified. - */ - if (info->name) - info->address = (unsigned long) - kallsyms_lookup_name(info->name); - /* * Check that the low-order bits of the address are appropriate * for the alignment implied by len. */ |