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* [PATCH] perf: Align cpu map events properly.
@ 2018-10-12  5:46 David Miller
  2018-10-16 15:29 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  2018-10-18  6:19 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf cpu_map: Align cpu map synthesized " tip-bot for David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2018-10-12  5:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: acme; +Cc: linux-kernel


The size of the resulting cpu map can be smaller than a multiple
of sizeof(u64), resulting in SIGBUS on cpus like Sparc as the
next event will not be aligned properly.

Fixes: 6c872901af07 ("perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map event synthesize function")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 0cd42150f712..0988eb3b844b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ void *cpu_map_data__alloc(struct cpu_map *map, size_t *size, u16 *type, int *max
 	}
 
 	*size += sizeof(struct cpu_map_data);
+	*size = PERF_ALIGN(*size, sizeof(u64));
 	return zalloc(*size);
 }
 

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