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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-27 17:24:15 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-27 17:24:15 +0100
commit3d083407a16698de86b42aee0da2ffb280b5cb7e (patch)
treede79bd42440a9057179d66013251157f1b76571f
parentdd8b1cf681eab40bc5afb67bdd06b2ca341f5669 (diff)
x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field
Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86 breakpoint backend. Let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c7
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
index 0675a7c4c20..2a1bd8f4f23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
* (display/resolving)
*/
struct arch_hw_breakpoint {
- char *name; /* Contains name of the symbol to set bkpt */
unsigned long address;
u8 len;
u8 type;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index dca2802c666..41e08dff016 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -344,13 +344,6 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp,
}
/*
- * For kernel-addresses, either the address or symbol name can be
- * specified.
- */
- if (info->name)
- info->address = (unsigned long)
- kallsyms_lookup_name(info->name);
- /*
* Check that the low-order bits of the address are appropriate
* for the alignment implied by len.
*/