powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Increase request buffer size
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 10 14:14:10 AEDT 2016
Michael Ellerman [mpe at ellerman.id.au] wrote:
> Here you read from bytes[i] where i can be > 1 (AFAICS).
Yes, buffer is large enough and I thought this construct of
array was used in a several places. Maybe they are being
changed out now (struct pid has one such usage).
>
> That's fishy at best, and newer GCCs just don't allow it.
Ah, ok.
>
> I think you could do this and it would work, but untested:
>
> struct hv_gpci_request_buffer {
> struct hv_get_perf_counter_info_params params;
> uint8_t bytes[4096 - sizeof(struct hv_get_perf_counter_info_parms)];
There is a macro for this computation in that file. I could have
used that. Will change it and repost.
Thanks,
Sukadev
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