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Commit 3d083407 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker
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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: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent dd8b1cf6

arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h

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@@ -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;

arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

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@@ -343,13 +343,6 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp, 
		return ret;

	}



	/*

	 * 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.