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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Modify breakpoint even if the new attr has disabled set
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:07:31PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > But, with or without this fix, shouldn't we set .disabled = 1 if modify_() fails?
> > IIUC this doesn't matter, bp->attr.disabled is not really used anyway, but looks a
> > bit confusing.
>
> I am looking at another caller perf_event_modify_breakpoint(). It too doesn't set
> attr.disabled = 1 on failure, it does _perf_event_enable() instead so attr.disabled
> should be correct.
>
> But this looks wrong. If modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() paths fails after
> arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() was called, then we can not simply restore

hum, arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings was removed recently.. r u checking the last sources?

jirka

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