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| author | Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> | 2010-02-24 13:59:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-05-12 14:57:14 -0700 |
| commit | 8faa545b70aa50bcb01a7baa113341ba1dff2fc3 (patch) | |
| tree | fd760f59ac352e235b406e4d59503c079ed8345b /include/trace | |
| parent | 0b7817edda5e44e5fa769645bd1220f5e7b0beb5 (diff) | |
tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
commit 86c38a31aa7f2dd6e74a262710bf8ebf7455acc5 upstream.
GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.
For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.
This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
to 4 bytes.
Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
gcc 4.5.
It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/trace/ftrace.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h index dacb8ef67000..4b6a4a300167 100644 --- a/include/trace/ftrace.h +++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ tstruct \ char __data[0]; \ }; \ - static struct ftrace_event_call event_##name + static struct ftrace_event_call \ + __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) event_##name #undef __cpparg #define __cpparg(arg...) arg |