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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/hw_breakpoint.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/hw_breakpoint.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 2c9120f0afca..e5325825aeb6 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
.read = hw_breakpoint_pmu_read,
};
-static int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
+int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
{
unsigned int **task_bp_pinned;
int cpu, err_cpu;
@@ -655,6 +655,5 @@ static int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
return -ENOMEM;
}
-core_initcall(init_hw_breakpoint);