From 4dc0da86967d5463708631d02a70cfed5b104884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:42:35 +0300 Subject: perf: Add context field to perf_event The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c index 98da6a7b5e82..00354d4919a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ void kgdb_arch_late(void) for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; i++) { if (breakinfo[i].pev) continue; - breakinfo[i].pev = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(&attr, NULL); + breakinfo[i].pev = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(&attr, NULL, NULL); if (IS_ERR((void * __force)breakinfo[i].pev)) { printk(KERN_ERR "kgdb: Could not allocate hw" "breakpoints\nDisabling the kernel debugger\n"); -- cgit