Re: [PATCH] kgdb: use new API for breakpoint tasklet

[Emil Renner Berthing]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 12:03, Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 07:42:37PM +0100, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> > This converts the kgdb_tasklet_breakpoint to use the new API in
> > commit 12cc923f1ccc ("tasklet: Introduce new initialization API")
> >
> > The new API changes the argument passed to the callback function, but
> > fortunately the argument isn't used so it is straight forward to use
> > DECLARE_TASKLET() rather than DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD().
>
> This patch overlaps with a more ambitious patch from Davidlohr.
> Perhaps you can join in with the other thread since the discussion
> there is unresolved. See:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/14/1320

Ah, that's cool. Getting rid of tasklets is much better than merely
trying to get rid of the old tasklet API. Please ignore this patch
then.

/Emil
>
> Daniel.
>
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> > index af6e8b4fb359..98d44c2bb0a4 100644
> > --- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
> > @@ -1090,13 +1090,13 @@ static void kgdb_unregister_callbacks(void)
> >   * such as is the case with kgdboe, where calling a breakpoint in the
> >   * I/O driver itself would be fatal.
> >   */
> > -static void kgdb_tasklet_bpt(unsigned long ing)
> > +static void kgdb_tasklet_bpt(struct tasklet_struct *unused)
> >  {
> >       kgdb_breakpoint();
> >       atomic_set(&kgdb_break_tasklet_var, 0);
> >  }
> >
> > -static DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD(kgdb_tasklet_breakpoint, kgdb_tasklet_bpt);
> > +static DECLARE_TASKLET(kgdb_tasklet_breakpoint, kgdb_tasklet_bpt);
> >
> >  void kgdb_schedule_breakpoint(void)
> >  {
> > --
> > 2.30.0
> >