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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-15 09:35:24 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-15 09:36:16 +0200
commitb257c14ceb1194a6181144210056d38f22127189 (patch)
treec803925f1d5bf2237e7495d306bf43929df0c952 /kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
parent371fd7e7a56a5c136d31aa980011bd2f131c3ef5 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to -rc4. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
index 81f691e..0565bb4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -17,7 +17,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs);
static char *perf_trace_buf;
static char *perf_trace_buf_nmi;
-typedef typeof(char [PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE]) perf_trace_t ;
+/*
+ * Force it to be aligned to unsigned long to avoid misaligned accesses
+ * suprises
+ */
+typedef typeof(unsigned long [PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)])
+ perf_trace_t;
/* Count the events in use (per event id, not per instance) */
static int total_ref_count;
@@ -130,6 +135,8 @@ __kprobes void *perf_trace_buf_prepare(int size, unsigned short type,
char *trace_buf, *raw_data;
int pc, cpu;
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE % sizeof(unsigned long));
+
pc = preempt_count();
/* Protect the per cpu buffer, begin the rcu read side */
@@ -152,7 +159,7 @@ __kprobes void *perf_trace_buf_prepare(int size, unsigned short type,
raw_data = per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf, cpu);
/* zero the dead bytes from align to not leak stack to user */
- *(u64 *)(&raw_data[size - sizeof(u64)]) = 0ULL;
+ memset(&raw_data[size - sizeof(u64)], 0, sizeof(u64));
entry = (struct trace_entry *)raw_data;
tracing_generic_entry_update(entry, *irq_flags, pc);