Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jason Wessel <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:30 -0500 |
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It is required to call hw_breakpoint_init() on an attr before using it in any other calls. This fixes the problem where kgdb will sometimes fail to initialize on x86_64.
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c index bfba601..d9adcde 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ int kgdb_arch_init(void) * portion of kgdb because this operation requires mutexs to * complete. */ + hw_breakpoint_init(&attr); attr.bp_addr = (unsigned long)kgdb_arch_init; attr.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT; attr.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_1; -- 1.6.3.1.9.g95405b
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