Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:03:56PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:59 AM Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavoars@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:06:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:04:04PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 05:20:08PM -0300, Arnaldo Melo wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks, applied
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Arnaldo.
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if could also take the other two:
> > > >
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511200911.GA13149@embeddedor/
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511201227.GA14041@embeddedor/
> > >
> > > I think I have those, but let me make sure.
> >
> > Great. :)
> 
> 
> Thanks for the cleanup! It has yielded a clang compiler warning/error
> for me in kernel/git/acme/linux.git branch perf/core:
> 
> util/intel-pt.c:1802:24: error: field 'br_stack' with variable sized
> type 'struct branch_stack' not
> at the end of a struct or class is a GNU extension
> [-Werror,-Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end]
>                        struct branch_stack br_stack;
> 
> I think this can be resolved by reordering the members of the struct,
> and may have been a latent bug exposed by this change. It's
> unfortunate it has broken this build.
> 

Yep. The following should resolve the issue:

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index f17b1e769ae4..b34179e3926f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -1799,8 +1799,8 @@ static int intel_pt_synth_pebs_sample(struct intel_pt_queue *ptq)

        if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK) {
                struct {
-                       struct branch_stack br_stack;
                        struct branch_entry entries[LBRS_MAX];
+                       struct branch_stack br_stack;
                } br;

                if (items->mask[INTEL_PT_LBR_0_POS] ||

I'll send a proper patch.

Thanks for the report!
--
Gustavo