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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 /arch/x86/kernel
parentperf: Remove pointless breakpoint union (diff)
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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: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index dca2802c666f..41e08dff0161 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.
*/