Hello,
On 03/18/2010 01:49 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While using the lock events through perf in a sparc box, I can see
> the following message repeated many times:
>
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[49357c] perf_trace_lock_acquire+0xb4/0x180
>
> It actually hangs the box as the messages are sent to a serial console.
>
> When used with perf, the trace events use a per cpu buffer allocated
> in kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c, and the allocation appears to return
> a misaligned percpu pointer. It is aligned to 4 while it seems it
> requires to be aligned to 8.
Does this fix the problem?
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
index c1cc3ab..d3f7d1b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
@@ -27,13 +27,15 @@ static int ftrace_profile_enable_event(struct ftrace_event_call *event)
return 0;
if (!total_profile_count) {
- buf = (char *)alloc_percpu(perf_trace_t);
+ buf = (char *)__alloc_percpu(sizeof(perf_trace_t),
+ __alignof__(unsigned long));
if (!buf)
goto fail_buf;
rcu_assign_pointer(perf_trace_buf, buf);
- buf = (char *)alloc_percpu(perf_trace_t);
+ buf = (char *)__alloc_percpu(sizeof(perf_trace_t),
+ __alignof__(unsigned long));
if (!buf)
goto fail_buf_nmi;
--
tejun
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