6.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ian Rogers irogers@google.com
[ Upstream commit b39c915a4f365cce6bdc0e538ed95d31823aea8f ]
Perf's synthetic-events.c will ensure 8-byte alignment of tracing data, writing it after a perf_record_header_tracing_data event.
Add padding to struct perf_record_header_tracing_data to make it 16-byte rather than 12-byte sized.
Fixes: 055c67ed39887c55 ("perf tools: Move event synthesizing routines to separate .c file") Reviewed-by: James Clark james.clark@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers irogers@google.com Acked-by: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Athira Rajeev atrajeev@linux.ibm.com Cc: Blake Jones blakejones@google.com Cc: Chun-Tse Shao ctshao@google.com Cc: Collin Funk collin.funk1@gmail.com Cc: Howard Chu howardchu95@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: Jan Polensky japo@linux.ibm.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com Cc: Li Huafei lihuafei1@huawei.com Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Nam Cao namcao@linutronix.de Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson sesse@google.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821163820.1132977-6-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h index 6608f1e3701b4..aa1e91c97a226 100644 --- a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h +++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ struct perf_record_header_event_type { struct perf_record_header_tracing_data { struct perf_event_header header; __u32 size; + __u32 pad; };
#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_BUILD_ID_SIZE (1 << 15)