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2015-10-13tools include: Fix strict-aliasing rules breakageJiri Olsa
Vinson reported build breakage with gcc 4.4 due to strict-aliasing. CC util/annotate.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors util/annotate.c: In function ‘disasm__purge’: linux-next/tools/include/linux/compiler.h:66: error: dereferencing pointer ‘res.41’ does break strict-aliasing rules The reason is READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE code we took from kernel sources. They intentionaly break aliasing rules. While this is ok for kernel because it's built with -fno-strict-aliasing, it breaks perf which is build with -Wstrict-aliasing=3. Using extra __may_alias__ type to allow aliasing in this case. Reported-and-tested-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151013085214.GB2705@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-07-05tools: Adopt {READ,WRITE_ONCE} from the kernelArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
We need it to build rbtree.c after this cset: commit d72da4a4d973 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Wed May 27 11:09:36 2015 +0930 rbtree: Make lockless searches non-fatal Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qlnzhezv5ddwst0w9fydju0y@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08perf tools: Move barrier() definition to tools/include/linux/compiler.hArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To make it generally accessible by other tools/ projects, also will be used in the tools/arch/*/include/asm/barrier.h files that are being introduced now. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qnjdqwu3vcnt14vqmr6wu788@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-05-05perf tools: Move ACCESS_ONCE from perf.h headerJiri Olsa
Into tools/include/linux/compiler.h header. Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9sk90owm370kuq3f0ssjjui2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-01-13tools include: Define likely/unlikely in linux/compiler.hNamhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389276059-8829-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Added the new header to tools/perf/MANIFEST ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-01-13tools include: Move perf's linux/compiler.h to a generic placeNamhyung Kim
So that it can be shared with others like libtraceevent. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389276059-8829-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>