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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-11 14:53:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-11 14:53:53 -0700
commit871039f02f8ec4ab2e5e9010718caa8e085786f1 (patch)
treef0d2b3127fc48c862967d68c46c2d46668137515 /kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
parente4077e018b5ead3de9951fc01d8bf12eeeeeefed (diff)
parent4a1032faac94ebbf647460ae3e06fc21146eb280 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
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 81f691eb3a3..0565bb42566 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);