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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-02 19:29:17 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-02 19:29:17 +0200
commit50d11d190afa4e21284b735bb0a092036f298f0b (patch)
tree098257e5933d1b1a5cbbc3470cef20a4cb856836 /kernel
parent42be79e37e264557f12860fa4cc84b4de3685954 (diff)
parentab310b5edb8b601bcb02491ed6f7676da4fd1757 (diff)
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Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 574ee58a3046..b0feb4795af3 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1164,11 +1164,9 @@ void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task,
struct perf_event_context *ctx = task->perf_event_ctxp;
struct perf_event_context *next_ctx;
struct perf_event_context *parent;
- struct pt_regs *regs;
int do_switch = 1;
- regs = task_pt_regs(task);
- perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES, 1, 1, regs, 0);
+ perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES, 1, 1, NULL, 0);
if (likely(!ctx || !cpuctx->task_ctx))
return;
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);