diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 752daebe91c..4d267fb7782 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2007 Alan Stern
  * Copyright (C) 2009 IBM Corporation
  * Copyright (C) 2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * Authors: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
+ *          K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+ *          Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index b6d6fa273ee..c16662268d7 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2009, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
  *
  * Thanks to Ingo Molnar for his many suggestions.
+ *
+ * Authors: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
+ *          K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+ *          Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c b/samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c
index 5bc9819a819..95063818bcf 100644
--- a/samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c
+++ b/samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
  * that variable.
  *
  * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2009
+ *
+ * Author: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  */
 #include <linux/module.h>	/* Needed by all modules */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>	/* Needed for KERN_INFO */