x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:05:07 +0000 (14:05 -0500)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:26:32 +0000 (08:26 +0200)
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.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: 2.6.33 <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1269975907-27602-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c

index bfba601..b2258ca 100644 (file)
@@ -618,8 +618,8 @@ 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;
        attr.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_W;
        attr.disabled = 1;