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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2014-01-08 11:15:52 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-12 10:16:07 +0100
commitf3ae75de98c4bac145a87d830c156c96f9414022 (patch)
tree17df33246ff0857a737017ff02d86854dc88d50d /kernel/events
parentMerge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/... (diff)
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perf/x86: Fix active_entry initialization
This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc() using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW). Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there. The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other needs to pointers to point to self. This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union. This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they actually overlap. This also solves the initialization problem. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 89d34f9bb8cb..c3b6c2799f34 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6670,6 +6670,8 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->sibling_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->rb_entry);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->active_entry);
+ INIT_HLIST_NODE(&event->hlist_entry);
+
init_waitqueue_head(&event->waitq);
init_irq_work(&event->pending, perf_pending_event);