perf events: Prefer union over variable length array
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:33:52 +0000 (07:33 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:55:21 +0000 (08:55 -0300)
commitd773c999b8d22ad3ffd42eca373ebae4cb6512fd
tree6c2b03e36e0210aa0022ff68412eb695a53efadb
parent3657ad4b0fb6a6c3df12cec92013614212f5f401
perf events: Prefer union over variable length array

It is possible for casts to introduce alignment issues, prefer a union
for perf_record_event_update.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220614143353.1559597-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h
tools/perf/tests/event_update.c
tools/perf/util/header.c
tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c