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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2011-01-27 01:26:22 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-02-03 17:28:46 +0300
commit654986462939cd7ec18f276c6379a334dac106a7 (patch)
treeb9c70944012c24fa6d7cc973fa9b4b6e875ca842 /include
parente4a9ea5ee7c8812a7bf0c3fb725ceeaa3d4c2fcc (diff)
downloadlinux-654986462939cd7ec18f276c6379a334dac106a7.tar.xz
tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tracepoint.h35
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index f53708be95eb..57b1b6811b61 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -166,10 +166,8 @@
CPU_KEEP(exit.data) \
MEM_KEEP(init.data) \
MEM_KEEP(exit.data) \
- . = ALIGN(32); \
- VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints) = .; \
+ STRUCT_ALIGN(); \
*(__tracepoints) \
- VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints) = .; \
/* implement dynamic printk debug */ \
. = ALIGN(8); \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___verbose) = .; \
@@ -218,6 +216,10 @@
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .; \
*(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \
*(__vermagic) /* Kernel version magic */ \
+ . = ALIGN(8); \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \
+ *(__tracepoints_ptrs) /* Tracepoints: pointer array */\
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \
*(__markers_strings) /* Markers: strings */ \
*(__tracepoints_strings)/* Tracepoints: strings */ \
} \
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 7695a303bb55..9bdf27c7615b 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ struct module
keeping pointers to this stuff */
char *args;
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
- struct tracepoint *tracepoints;
+ struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;
unsigned int num_tracepoints;
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index c6814616653b..97c84a58efb8 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -33,12 +33,7 @@ struct tracepoint {
void (*regfunc)(void);
void (*unregfunc)(void);
struct tracepoint_func __rcu *funcs;
-} __attribute__((aligned(32))); /*
- * Aligned on 32 bytes because it is
- * globally visible and gcc happily
- * align these on the structure size.
- * Keep in sync with vmlinux.lds.h.
- */
+};
/*
* Connect a probe to a tracepoint.
@@ -61,15 +56,15 @@ extern void tracepoint_probe_update_all(void);
struct tracepoint_iter {
struct module *module;
- struct tracepoint *tracepoint;
+ struct tracepoint * const *tracepoint;
};
extern void tracepoint_iter_start(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
extern void tracepoint_iter_next(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
extern void tracepoint_iter_stop(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
extern void tracepoint_iter_reset(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
-extern int tracepoint_get_iter_range(struct tracepoint **tracepoint,
- struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end);
+extern int tracepoint_get_iter_range(struct tracepoint * const **tracepoint,
+ struct tracepoint * const *begin, struct tracepoint * const *end);
/*
* tracepoint_synchronize_unregister must be called between the last tracepoint
@@ -84,11 +79,13 @@ static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
#define PARAMS(args...) args
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
-extern void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
- struct tracepoint *end);
+extern
+void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint * const *begin,
+ struct tracepoint * const *end);
#else
-static inline void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
- struct tracepoint *end)
+static inline
+void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint * const *begin,
+ struct tracepoint * const *end)
{ }
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
@@ -174,12 +171,20 @@ do_trace: \
{ \
}
+/*
+ * We have no guarantee that gcc and the linker won't up-align the tracepoint
+ * structures, so we create an array of pointers that will be used for iteration
+ * on the tracepoints.
+ */
#define DEFINE_TRACE_FN(name, reg, unreg) \
static const char __tpstrtab_##name[] \
__attribute__((section("__tracepoints_strings"))) = #name; \
struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name \
- __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"), aligned(32))) = \
- { __tpstrtab_##name, 0, reg, unreg, NULL }
+ __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"))) = \
+ { __tpstrtab_##name, 0, reg, unreg, NULL }; \
+ static struct tracepoint * const __tracepoint_ptr_##name __used \
+ __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_ptrs"))) = \
+ &__tracepoint_##name;
#define DEFINE_TRACE(name) \
DEFINE_TRACE_FN(name, NULL, NULL);