Commit 8258e268 authored by Tiejun Chen's avatar Tiejun Chen Committed by Scott Wood
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powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info



Use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate thread_info statically instead of kmalloc().
This can avoid introducing more memory check codes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
[scottwood@freescale.com: wrapped long line]
Signed-off-by: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
parent 9863c28a
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@@ -151,15 +151,16 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
	return 1;
}

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct thread_info, kgdb_thread_info);
static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	struct thread_info *thread_info, *exception_thread_info;
	struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info;
	struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info =
		&__get_cpu_var(kgdb_thread_info);

	if (user_mode(regs))
		return 0;

	backup_current_thread_info = kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL);
	/*
	 * On Book E and perhaps other processors, singlestep is handled on
	 * the critical exception stack.  This causes current_thread_info()
@@ -185,7 +186,6 @@ static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
		/* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */
		memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info, sizeof *thread_info);

	kfree(backup_current_thread_info);
	return 1;
}