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perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layout 

The miss-alignment of bp_addr created a 32bit hole, causing
different structure packings on 32 and 64 bit machines.

Fix that by moving __reserve_2 into that hole.

Further, remove the useless struct and redundant __bp_reserve
muck.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Peter Zijlstra 2009-12-15 19:43:11 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent cdccc69003
commit f13c12c634
2 changed files with 4 additions and 10 deletions
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include/linux/perf_event.h
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@ -211,17 +211,11 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
__u32 wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup */
};
struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */
__u64 bp_addr;
__u32 bp_type;
__u32 bp_len;
__u64 __bp_reserved_1;
__u64 __bp_reserved_2;
};
__u32 __reserved_2;
__u64 __reserved_3;
__u64 bp_addr;
__u32 bp_type;
__u32 bp_len;
};
/*

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kernel/perf_event.c
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@ -4564,7 +4564,7 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr,
if (attr->type >= PERF_TYPE_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
if (attr->__reserved_1 || attr->__reserved_2 || attr->__reserved_3)
if (attr->__reserved_1 || attr->__reserved_2)
return -EINVAL;
if (attr->sample_type & ~(PERF_SAMPLE_MAX-1))