[tip:tracing/core] x86, ds: fix buffer alignment in debug store selftest

From: tip-bot for Markus Metzger
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 05:32:30 EST


Commit-ID: 782cc5ae6331d63b4febaa312c9d14493aafa9b8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/782cc5ae6331d63b4febaa312c9d14493aafa9b8
Author: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:43:09 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:18:51 +0200

x86, ds: fix buffer alignment in debug store selftest

The debug store selftest code uses a stack-allocated buffer, which is
not necessarily correctly aligned.

For tests using a buffer to hold a single entry, the buffer that is
passed to ds_request must already be suitably aligned.

Pass a suitably aligned portion of the bigger buffer.

[ Impact: fix hw-branch-tracer self-test failure ]

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx
LKML-Reference: <20090424094309.A30145@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/ds_selftest.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ds_selftest.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ds_selftest.c
index 5f104a0..6bc7c19 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ds_selftest.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ds_selftest.c
@@ -323,13 +323,15 @@ static int ds_selftest_bts_bad_request_task(void *buffer)
int ds_selftest_bts(void)
{
struct ds_selftest_bts_conf conf;
- unsigned char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
+ unsigned char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE], *small_buffer;
unsigned long irq;
int cpu;

printk(KERN_INFO "[ds] bts selftest...");
conf.error = 0;

+ small_buffer = (unsigned char *)ALIGN((unsigned long)buffer, 8) + 8;
+
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
conf.suspend = ds_suspend_bts_wrap;
@@ -381,7 +383,7 @@ int ds_selftest_bts(void)
conf.suspend = ds_suspend_bts_noirq;
conf.resume = ds_resume_bts_noirq;
conf.tracer =
- ds_request_bts_task(current, buffer, SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE,
+ ds_request_bts_task(current, small_buffer, SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE,
NULL, (size_t)-1, BTS_KERNEL);
local_irq_save(irq);
ds_selftest_bts_cpu(&conf);
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