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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2010-11-04 17:33:01 -0500
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-11-12 14:51:55 +0100
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perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier
When using early debugging, the kernel does not initialize the hw_breakpoint API early enough and causes the late initialization of the kernel debugger to fail. The boot arguments are: earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait Then simply type "go" at the kdb prompt and boot. The kernel will later emit the message: kgdb: Could not allocate hwbreakpoints And at that point the kernel debugger will cease to work correctly. The solution is to initialize the hw_breakpoint at the same time that all the other perf call backs are initialized instead of using a core_initcall() initialization which happens well after the kernel debugger can make use of hardware breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_event.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 517d827f4982..05b7d8c72c6c 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/ftrace_event.h>
+#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
@@ -6295,6 +6296,8 @@ perf_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
void __init perf_event_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
+
perf_event_init_all_cpus();
init_srcu_struct(&pmus_srcu);
perf_pmu_register(&perf_swevent);
@@ -6302,4 +6305,7 @@ void __init perf_event_init(void)
perf_pmu_register(&perf_task_clock);
perf_tp_register();
perf_cpu_notifier(perf_cpu_notify);
+
+ ret = init_hw_breakpoint();
+ WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret);
}