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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-03-25 14:51:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-26 11:33:55 +0100
commitfaa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19 (patch)
treeaf667d1cdff7dc63b6893ee3f27a1f2503229ed1 /arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
parent7c5ecaf7666617889f337296c610815b519abfa9 (diff)
downloadlinux-faa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19.tar.gz
x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index b43bbaebe2c0..7a880ad3a208 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -422,14 +422,12 @@ static void __kprobes set_current_kprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 static void __kprobes clear_btf(void)
 {
-	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR))
-		update_debugctlmsr(0);
+	/* XXX */
 }
 
 static void __kprobes restore_btf(void)
 {
-	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR))
-		update_debugctlmsr(current->thread.debugctlmsr);
+	/* XXX */
 }
 
 void __kprobes arch_prepare_kretprobe(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,