Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2016-08-31
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[RFC PATCH 1/2] arm64: hw_breakpoint: convert CPU hotplug notifier to new infrastructure

From: bigeasy@linutronix.de (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
Date: 2016-08-26 11:28:06

On 2016-08-26 11:35:57 [+0100], Will Deacon wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 26a6bf77d272..948b73148d56 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ void hw_breakpoint_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
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-static int hw_breakpoint_reset_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
-						unsigned long action,
-						void *hcpu)
-{
-	if ((action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) == CPU_ONLINE) {
-		local_irq_disable();
-		hw_breakpoint_reset(NULL);
so the old one was invoked at CPU_ONLINE time.
-		local_irq_enable();
-	}
-	return NOTIFY_OK;
+	return 0;
 }
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quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -919,36 +905,34 @@ static inline void cpu_suspend_set_dbg_restorer(void (*hw_bp_restore)(void *))
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+	/*
+	 * Reset the breakpoint resources. We assume that a halting
+	 * debugger will leave the world in a nice state for us.
+	 */
+	ret = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_PERF_ARM_HW_BREAKPOINT_STARTING,
+			  "CPUHP_AP_PERF_ARM_HW_BREAKPOINT_STARTING",
+			  hw_breakpoint_reset, NULL);
But this will move it to CPU_STARTING. May I ask why?

Sebastian
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