perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization

This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on arm
and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause crashes
when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW.

It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct
initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.315416040@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 9f2b2bac8b2b..6504208f375f 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ static int __kprobes perf_event_nmi_handler(struct notifier_block *self,
 
         regs = args->regs;
 
-        data.addr = 0;
+        perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0);
 
         cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);