From: Steven Rostedt Impact: fix to possible alignment problems on some archs. Some arch compilers include an NULL char array in the sizeof field. Since the ring_buffer_event type includes one of these, it is better to use the "offsetof" instead, to avoid strange bugs on these archs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 2ad6bae..27cf834 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ void ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp(int cpu, u64 *ts) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp); -#define RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE (sizeof(struct ring_buffer_event)) +#define RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE (offsetof(struct ring_buffer_event, array)) #define RB_ALIGNMENT 4U #define RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA 28 -- 1.5.6.5 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/