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x86/fpu: Properly align size in CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF() macro
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:25:30 +0000 (15:25 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Jan 2016 10:06:06 +0000 (11:06 +0100)
commit25ec02f2c14466a4549c5dcc044b628c2cc46fde
treeae58731e004a75bbf63297eee3d4b4342337c184
parent7d92de3a8285ab3dfd68aa3a99823acd5b190444
x86/fpu: Properly align size in CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF() macro

The CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF(TYPE, MEMBER) checks whether MEMBER
is last member of TYPE by evaluating:

  offsetof(TYPE::MEMBER) + sizeof(TYPE::MEMBER) == sizeof(TYPE)

and ensuring TYPE::MEMBER is the last member of the TYPE.

This condition breaks on structs that are padded to be
aligned. This patch ensures the TYPE alignment is taken
into account.

This bug was revealed after adding cacheline alignment into
struct sched_entity, which broke task_struct::thread check:

  CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF(struct task_struct, thread);

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450707930-3445-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c