From dc1d628a67a8f042e711ea5accc0beedc3ef0092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:55:04 +0100 Subject: perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on arm and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause crashes when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW. It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Jean Pihet Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Jamie Iles Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.315416040@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c index b6cf8f1f4d3..5120bd44f69 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -1164,10 +1164,10 @@ static void record_and_restart(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long val, * Finally record data if requested. */ if (record) { - struct perf_sample_data data = { - .addr = ~0ULL, - .period = event->hw.last_period, - }; + struct perf_sample_data data; + + perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL); + data.period = event->hw.last_period; if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR) perf_get_data_addr(regs, &data.addr); -- cgit v1.2.3