Subject: [Patch 1/4] Allow arch-specific cleanup before breakpoint unregistration

From: "K.Prasad" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:02:23 +0530

Certain architectures (such as PowerPC Book III S) have a need to cleanup
data-structures before the breakpoint is unregistered. This patch introduces
an arch-specific hook in release_bp_slot() along with a weak definition in
the form of a stub funciton.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <[email-masked]>
---
 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.ppc64_test/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.ppc64_test.orig/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ linux-2.6.ppc64_test/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -242,6 +242,17 @@ toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bo
 }
 
 /*
+ * Function to perform processor-specific cleanup during unregistration
+ */
+__weak void arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
+{
+	/*
+	 * A weak stub function here for those archs that don't define
+	 * it inside arch/.../kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+	 */
+}
+
+/*
  * Contraints to check before allowing this new breakpoint counter:
  *
  *  == Non-pinned counter == (Considered as pinned for now)
@@ -339,6 +350,7 @@ void release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *
 {
 	mutex_lock(&nr_bp_mutex);
 
+	arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint(bp);
 	__release_bp_slot(bp);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&nr_bp_mutex);