From 082605de5f82eb692cc90f7fda071cc01bb5ac34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:32:51 -0500 Subject: ring-buffer: fix alignment problem Impact: fix to allow some archs to use the ring buffer Commits in the ring buffer are checked by pointer arithmetic. If the calculation is incorrect, then the commits will never take place and the buffer will simply fill up and report an error. Each page in the ring buffer has a small header: struct buffer_data_page { u64 time_stamp; local_t commit; unsigned char data[]; }; Unfortuntely, some of the calculations used sizeof(struct buffer_data_page) to know the size of the header. But this is incorrect on some archs, where sizeof(struct buffer_data_page) does not equal offsetof(struct buffer_data_page, data), and on those archs, the commits are never processed. This patch replaces the sizeof with offsetof. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 8b0daf0662e..1d6526361d0 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static inline int test_time_stamp(u64 delta) return 0; } -#define BUF_PAGE_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct buffer_data_page)) +#define BUF_PAGE_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE - offsetof(struct buffer_data_page, data)) /* * head_page == tail_page && head == tail then buffer is empty. -- cgit v1.2.3