hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests

This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-26 05:35:42 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent c6567f642e
commit 605bfaee90
4 changed files with 8 additions and 25 deletions

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@@ -657,10 +657,7 @@ restore:
tsk, true);
thread->ptrace_bps[i] = NULL;
if (!bp) { /* incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */
rc = -EINVAL;
break;
}
/* Incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */
if (IS_ERR(bp)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(bp);
bp = NULL;
@@ -729,9 +726,6 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(struct task_struct *tsk, int nr,
tsk,
bp->attr.disabled);
}
if (!bp)
return -EIO;
/*
* CHECKME: the previous code returned -EIO if the addr wasn't a
* valid task virtual addr. The new one will return -EINVAL in this