Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tracing tree with the tip-core tree

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:17:40PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the tracing tree got a conflict in
> block/blktrace.c between commit 313e458f81ec3852106c5a83830fe0d4f405a71a
> ("alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu") from the tip-core
> tree and commit 2db270a80b8f2238e536876cfb3987af02684df8
> ("tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace") from the
> tracing tree.
> 
> I applied the block/blktrace.c part of the former commit to
> kernel/trace/blktrace.c (see below) and can carry this fix as necessary.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> index e39679a..d24a10b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
>  	if (!bt->sequence)
>  		goto err;
>  
> -	bt->msg_data = __alloc_percpu(BLK_TN_MAX_MSG);
> +	bt->msg_data = __alloc_percpu(BLK_TN_MAX_MSG, __alignof__(char));
>  	if (!bt->msg_data)
>  		goto err;
>  

Hi,

It looks like this problem is solved on tip/master.