From: Markus Metzger Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:43:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heap X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4d657e51dfc042216febd4a007c6f36881f9256d;p=linux-beck.git x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heap Allocate the trace_iterator for the hw-branch-tracer selftest on the heap. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger Cc: roland@redhat.com Cc: eranian@googlemail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090403144556.578777000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c index 499d01c44cd1..00dd6485bdd7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ int trace_selftest_startup_hw_branches(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *tr) { - struct trace_iterator iter; + struct trace_iterator *iter; struct tracer tracer; unsigned long count; int ret; @@ -777,17 +777,21 @@ trace_selftest_startup_hw_branches(struct tracer *trace, * The hw-branch tracer needs to collect the trace from the various * cpu trace buffers - before tracing is stopped. */ - memset(&iter, 0, sizeof(iter)); + iter = kzalloc(sizeof(*iter), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!iter) + return -ENOMEM; + memcpy(&tracer, trace, sizeof(tracer)); - iter.trace = &tracer; - iter.tr = tr; - iter.pos = -1; - mutex_init(&iter.mutex); + iter->trace = &tracer; + iter->tr = tr; + iter->pos = -1; + mutex_init(&iter->mutex); - trace->open(&iter); + trace->open(iter); - mutex_destroy(&iter.mutex); + mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex); + kfree(iter); tracing_stop();