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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-08 09:06:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-08 10:18:47 +0200
commitc1ab9cab75098924fa8226a8a371de66977439df (patch)
tree767e77302ca8f2eb781c60624bc8518cd50ba6eb /kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
parentff0ff84a0767df48d728c36510365344a7e7d582 (diff)
parentf5284e7635787224dda1a2bf82a4c56b1c75671f (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts: include/linux/module.h kernel/module.c Semantic conflict: include/trace/events/module.h Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up possibly racy module refcounting") 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 81f691eb3a30..0565bb42566f 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);