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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-11-26 05:35:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-11-26 09:29:21 +0100 |
| commit | 605bfaee9078cd0b01d83402315389839ee4bb5c (patch) | |
| tree | 35c3af269b37347b689b3b212fc99d4ae9f719e5 /kernel/trace | |
| parent | c6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded (diff) | |
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hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c index 9f040e42f516..c538b15b95d6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c @@ -200,12 +200,9 @@ int process_new_ksym_entry(char *ksymname, int op, unsigned long addr) entry->ksym_hbp = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr, entry->len, entry->type, ksym_hbp_handler, true); + if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp)) { - entry->ksym_hbp = NULL; ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp); - } - - if (!entry->ksym_hbp) { printk(KERN_INFO "ksym_tracer request failed. Try again" " later!!\n"); goto err; @@ -332,21 +329,16 @@ static ssize_t ksym_trace_filter_write(struct file *file, if (changed) { unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_hbp); entry->type = op; + ret = 0; if (op > 0) { entry->ksym_hbp = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr, entry->len, entry->type, ksym_hbp_handler, true); if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp)) - entry->ksym_hbp = NULL; - - /* modified without problem */ - if (entry->ksym_hbp) { - ret = 0; + ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp); + else goto out; - } - } else { - ret = 0; } /* Error or "symbol:---" case: drop it */ ksym_filter_entry_count--; |