4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> commit c3fcadf0bb765faf45d6d562246e1d08885466df upstream. Define auxtrace record alignment so that it can be referenced elsewhere. Note this is preparation for patch "perf intel-pt: Fix overlap calculation for padding" Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 4 ++-- tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c @@ -1273,9 +1273,9 @@ static int __auxtrace_mmap__read(struct } /* padding must be written by fn() e.g. record__process_auxtrace() */ - padding = size & 7; + padding = size & (PERF_AUXTRACE_RECORD_ALIGNMENT - 1); if (padding) - padding = 8 - padding; + padding = PERF_AUXTRACE_RECORD_ALIGNMENT - padding; memset(&ev, 0, sizeof(ev)); ev.auxtrace.header.type = PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE; --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ struct record_opts; struct auxtrace_info_event; struct events_stats; +/* Auxtrace records must have the same alignment as perf event records */ +#define PERF_AUXTRACE_RECORD_ALIGNMENT 8 + enum auxtrace_type { PERF_AUXTRACE_UNKNOWN, PERF_AUXTRACE_INTEL_PT,

