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x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code

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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>
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Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 14:51:50 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7c5ecaf766
commit faa4602e47
34 changed files with 9 additions and 3269 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
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@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/idle.h>
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/ds.h>
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork");
@@ -238,13 +237,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
kfree(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr);
p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0;
}
clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DS_AREA_MSR);
p->thread.ds_ctx = NULL;
clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR);
p->thread.debugctlmsr = 0;
return err;
}