From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

To have a more compact way to ask the compiler to use a specific
alignment, making tools/ look more like kernel source code.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 1 +
 tools/perf/util/evlist.h           | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h 
b/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 0f57a48272ab..bd39b2090ad1 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -26,5 +26,6 @@
 
 #define __noreturn     __attribute__((noreturn))
 
+#define __aligned(x)   __attribute__((aligned(x)))
 #define __printf(a, b) __attribute__((format(printf, a, b)))
 #define __scanf(a, b)  __attribute__((format(scanf, a, b)))
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 94cea4398a13..8d601fbdd8d6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef __PERF_EVLIST_H
 #define __PERF_EVLIST_H 1
 
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/refcount.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ struct perf_mmap {
        refcount_t       refcnt;
        u64              prev;
        struct auxtrace_mmap auxtrace_mmap;
-       char             event_copy[PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE] 
__attribute__((aligned(8)));
+       char             event_copy[PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE] __aligned(8);
 };
 
 static inline size_t
-- 
2.9.4

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