[PATCH] arm64: hw_breakpoint: use target state to determine ABI behaviour

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:43:01PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:16:13PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> > index bba85c8f8037..2926c3dd6479 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> > @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ enum hw_breakpoint_ops {
> >  	HW_BREAKPOINT_RESTORE
> >  };
> >  
> > +static int is_compat_bp(struct perf_event *bp)
> > +{
> > +	struct task_struct *tsk = bp->hw.target;
> > +	return tsk && is_compat_thread(task_thread_info(tsk));
> > +}
> 
> What are the conditions for tsk == NULL?

If you create a per-cpu breakpoint (i.e. a breakpoint that isn't affine
to a task), then the target is NULL. These can only be created by the
perf_event_open syscall, not from ptrace.

Will