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Message-ID: <tip-c6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:44:56 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
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	prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [tip:perf/core] hw-breakpoints: Improve in-kernel event creation error granularity

Commit-ID:  c6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/c6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded
Author:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:35:41 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:29:21 +0100

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@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   20 +++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 35df94e..34a1b9d 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);
 
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