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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index c16662268d75..06d372fc026d 100644 --- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -267,7 +267,16 @@ int __register_perf_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp) if (ret) return ret; - if (!bp->attr.disabled) + /* + * Ptrace breakpoints can be temporary perf events only + * meant to reserve a slot. In this case, it is created disabled and + * we don't want to check the params right now (as we put a null addr) + * But perf tools create events as disabled and we want to check + * the params for them. + * This is a quick hack that will be removed soon, once we remove + * the tmp breakpoints from ptrace + */ + if (!bp->attr.disabled || bp->callback == perf_bp_event) ret = arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(bp, bp->ctx->task); return ret; |