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| author | Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> | 2018-05-30 08:19:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-07-03 11:21:28 +0200 |
| commit | 0d3b3e3fb25e66f58e39aa8f27d4ca1d8062d863 (patch) | |
| tree | ea5b3e5323da6c2b05033788742c50898cd1b3c3 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | e68a9fb0ef50cff5b09210e6608c6ce09b32cb18 (diff) | |
branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
commit 2026d35741f2c3ece73c11eb7e4a15d7c2df9ebe upstream.
The function __builtin_expect returns long type (see the gcc
documentation), and so do macros likely and unlikely. Unfortunatelly, when
CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES is selected, the macros likely and
unlikely expand to __branch_check__ and __branch_check__ truncates the
long type to int. This unintended truncation may cause bugs in various
kernel code (we found a bug in dm-writecache because of it), so it's
better to fix __branch_check__ to return long.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1805300818140.24812@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1f0d69a9fc815 ("tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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