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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-11-26 05:35:41 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-26 09:29:21 +0100
commitc6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded (patch)
treeeff0dee5075d220b46019019f8e0d8e8a7bd30f3 /kernel
parentd99be40aff88722ab03ee295e4f6c13a4cca9a3d (diff)
hw-breakpoints: Improve in-kernel event creation error granularity
In fail case, perf_event_create_kernel_counter() returns NULL instead of an error, which doesn't help us to inform the user about the origin of the problem from the outer most callers. Often we can just return -EINVAL, which doesn't help anyone when it's eventually about a memory allocation failure. Then, this patch makes perf_event_create_kernel_counter() always return a detailed error code. 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: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c20
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 35df94e344f..34a1b9d7633 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4780,14 +4780,17 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
*/
ctx = find_get_context(pid, cpu);
- if (IS_ERR(ctx))
- return NULL;
+ if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
+ goto err_exit;
+ }
event = perf_event_alloc(attr, cpu, ctx, NULL,
NULL, callback, GFP_KERNEL);
- err = PTR_ERR(event);
- if (IS_ERR(event))
+ if (IS_ERR(event)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(event);
goto err_put_context;
+ }
event->filp = NULL;
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
@@ -4804,11 +4807,10 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
return event;
-err_put_context:
- if (err < 0)
- put_ctx(ctx);
-
- return NULL;
+ err_put_context:
+ put_ctx(ctx);
+ err_exit:
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_create_kernel_counter);