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libperf: Fix alignment trap with xyarray contents in 'perf stat'
authorGerald BAEZA <gerald.baeza@st.com>
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:07:01 +0000 (09:07 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:47:54 +0000 (12:47 +0200)
commitbbaab8bf299962535f079210a76835707927a458
treea33fedc06cca12f7aff20f6cb5ca66b3572510ea
parent1399a136127bfe1b9bb7c951d9851da62a519121
libperf: Fix alignment trap with xyarray contents in 'perf stat'

[ Upstream commit d9c5c083416500e95da098c01be092b937def7fa ]

Following the patch 'perf stat: Fix --no-scale', an alignment trap
happens in process_counter_values() on ARMv7 platforms due to the
attempt to copy non 64 bits aligned double words (pointed by 'count')
via a NEON vectored instruction ('vld1' with 64 bits alignment
constraint).

This patch sets a 64 bits alignment constraint on 'contents[]' field in
'struct xyarray' since the 'count' pointer used above points to such a
structure.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Baeza <gerald.baeza@st.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566464769-16374-1-git-send-email-gerald.baeza@st.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/xyarray.h