perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layout
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:43:11 +0000 (19:43 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:12:20 +0000 (20:12 +0100)
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>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/perf_event.c

index 64a53f74c9a91d140331863bbc4a1e0423fbb7ee..5fcbf7d2712a83301da0295650e4df56b913305d 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
 };
 
 /*
index 8823b0885183eff0819ed1ef01913425368c5290..0dd8e5d02c665298de58d9b5cc50edbd5f2adb5e 100644 (file)
@@ -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))