On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:01:52PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org> writes: > > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c > > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c > > index 348cac9..fba6527 100644 > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c > > @@ -139,30 +139,31 @@ int arch_bp_generic_fields(int type, int *gen_bp_type) > > /* > > * Validate the arch-specific HW Breakpoint register settings > > */ > > -int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp) > > +int hw_breakpoint_arch_parse(struct perf_event *bp, > > + struct perf_event_attr *attr, > > + struct arch_hw_breakpoint *hw) > > I think the semantics here are that we are reading from bp/attr and > writing to hw? > > If so would some sprinkling of const on the first two parameters help > make that clearer?
I seem to remember there was an issue with that due to the various functions we call that need to be converted to take const as well. I thought I would do it in a seperate series but actually it should be no big deal to do it on this one. Let me try that and respin. > > /* > > * Since breakpoint length can be a maximum of HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN(8) > > @@ -176,12 +177,12 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event > > *bp) > > if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DAWR)) { > > length_max = 512 ; /* 64 doublewords */ > > /* DAWR region can't cross 512 boundary */ > > - if ((bp->attr.bp_addr >> 10) != > > - ((bp->attr.bp_addr + bp->attr.bp_len - 1) >> 10)) > > + if ((attr->bp_addr >> 10) != > > + ((attr->bp_addr + attr->bp_len - 1) >> 10)) > > return -EINVAL; > > This will conflict with my next branch, but it should be easy enough to > resolve. Ok. > > > } > > - if (info->len > > > - (length_max - (info->address & HW_BREAKPOINT_ALIGN))) > > + if (hw->len > > > + (length_max - (hw->address & HW_BREAKPOINT_ALIGN))) > > return -EINVAL; > > return 0; > > } > > Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Thanks!