The patch titled
Linux Kernel Markers - Alignment Fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
linux-kernel-markers-alignment-fix.patch
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Subject: Linux Kernel Markers - Alignment Fix
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix the alignment of the struct marker declaration in the trace_mark()
macro. Otherwise, we run into problems on 64 bits architectures where the
struct marker structure is bigger than 32 bytes : gcc becomes
alignment-happy and align these structures on 32 bytes while the iteration
on the markers is itself only aligned on 8 bytes, as specified by the type
attribute. Specifying the alignmentof the type only is not enough to
restrain gcc happiness; we must specify a variable alignment attribute too.
This bug causes NULL pointer dereference at module load time on x86_64 when
we load marker-example.ko.
Thanks to Mike Mason for reporting this.
It applies to 2.6.23-rc8-mm2, after the linux kernel markers coding style
fixes. This is an important bugfix that should be merged with the
markers.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Mike Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff -puN include/linux/marker.h~linux-kernel-markers-alignment-fix
include/linux/marker.h
--- a/include/linux/marker.h~linux-kernel-markers-alignment-fix
+++ a/include/linux/marker.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct marker {
__attribute__((section("__markers_strings"))) \
= format; \
static struct marker __mark_##name \
- __attribute__((section("__markers"))) = \
+ __attribute__((section("__markers"), aligned(8))) = \
{ __mstrtab_name_##name, __mstrtab_format_##name, \
0, __mark_empty_function, NULL }; \
asm volatile("" : : "i" (&__mark_##name)); \
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
powerpc-include-pagemaph-in-asm-powerpc-tlbh.patch
fix-f_version-type-should-be-u64-instead-of-unsigned-long.patch
local_t-documentation-update-2.patch
local_t-update-documentation.patch
combine-instrumentation-menus-in-kernel-kconfiginstrumentation.patch
linux-kernel-markers.patch
linux-kernel-markers-checkpatch-fixes.patch
linux-kernel-markers-coding-style-fixes.patch
linux-kernel-markers-alignment-fix.patch
add-samples-subdir.patch
linux-kernel-markers-samples.patch
linux-kernel-markers-samples-checkpatch-fixes.patch
linux-kernel-markers-documentation.patch
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