Patch "perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-hwbp-simplify-the-perf-hwbp-code-fix-documentation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:39:07 -1000
Subject: perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f upstream.

Annoyingly, modify_user_hw_breakpoint() unnecessarily complicates the
modification of a breakpoint - simplify it and remove the pointless
local variables.

Also update the stale Docbook while at it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c |   30 +++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -427,16 +427,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_break
  * modify_user_hw_breakpoint - modify a user-space hardware breakpoint
  * @bp: the breakpoint structure to modify
  * @attr: new breakpoint attributes
- * @triggered: callback to trigger when we hit the breakpoint
- * @tsk: pointer to 'task_struct' of the process to which the address belongs
  */
 int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
 {
-	u64 old_addr = bp->attr.bp_addr;
-	u64 old_len = bp->attr.bp_len;
-	int old_type = bp->attr.bp_type;
-	int err = 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * modify_user_hw_breakpoint can be invoked with IRQs disabled and hence it
 	 * will not be possible to raise IPIs that invoke __perf_event_disable.
@@ -451,27 +444,18 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct per
 	bp->attr.bp_addr = attr->bp_addr;
 	bp->attr.bp_type = attr->bp_type;
 	bp->attr.bp_len = attr->bp_len;
+	bp->attr.disabled = 1;
 
-	if (attr->disabled)
-		goto end;
-
-	err = validate_hw_breakpoint(bp);
-	if (!err)
-		perf_event_enable(bp);
+	if (!attr->disabled) {
+		int err = validate_hw_breakpoint(bp);
 
-	if (err) {
-		bp->attr.bp_addr = old_addr;
-		bp->attr.bp_type = old_type;
-		bp->attr.bp_len = old_len;
-		if (!bp->attr.disabled)
-			perf_event_enable(bp);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 
-		return err;
+		perf_event_enable(bp);
+		bp->attr.disabled = 0;
 	}
 
-end:
-	bp->attr.disabled = attr->disabled;
-
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(modify_user_hw_breakpoint);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@linux-foundation.org are

queue-4.4/perf-hwbp-simplify-the-perf-hwbp-code-fix-documentation.patch