Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][for 2.6.35] tracing: Add alignment tosyscall metadata declarations

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 14:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Something like this:
> > (whitespace damaged)
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > index 48c5299..64430d3 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@
> >  #endif
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
> > -#define TRACE_SYSCALLS() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_syscalls_metadata) = .;        \
> > +#define TRACE_SYSCALLS() . = ALIGN(8);                                 \
> > +                        VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_syscalls_metadata) = .; \
> >                         *(__syscalls_metadata)                         \
> >                         VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_syscalls_metadata) = .;
> >  #else
> 
> If this is confirmed to fix it, then I would much prefer this version.

Zeev,

Can you try Sam's version and remove mine. I'd like to see if that fixes
the issue too.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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