Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf: Remove pointless union that wraps the hw breakpoint fields

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 08:34 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> It stands to anonymize a structure, but structures can already
> anonymize by themselves.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/perf_event.h |   14 ++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index a61e4de..53230e9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -215,14 +215,12 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>  		__u32		wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup   */
>  	};
>  
> -	union {
> -		struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */
> -			__u64		bp_addr;
> -			__u32		bp_type;
> -			__u32		bp_len;
> -			__u64		__bp_reserved_1;
> -			__u64		__bp_reserved_2;
> -		};
> +	struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */
> +		__u64		bp_addr;
> +		__u32		bp_type;
> +		__u32		bp_len;
> +		__u64		__bp_reserved_1;
> +		__u64		__bp_reserved_2;
>  	};
>  
>  	__u32			__reserved_2;

So I'm a bit puzzled by the need for
 - that structure to begin with
 - specialized __bp reserves

Furthermore, you still got the packing wrong, leading to different
structure layout on 32 and 64 bit platforms,..

How about?

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 89098e3..5595154 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -215,17 +215,12 @@ 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;
+	/* Hardware breakpoint info */
+	__u64		bp_addr;
+	__u32		bp_type;
+	__u32		bp_len;
 };
 
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