x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heap

Allocate the trace_iterator for the hw-branch-tracer selftest on the heap.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144556.578777000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index 499d01c44cd1..00dd6485bdd7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ int
 trace_selftest_startup_hw_branches(struct tracer *trace,
                                    struct trace_array *tr)
 {
-        struct trace_iterator iter;
+        struct trace_iterator *iter;
         struct tracer tracer;
         unsigned long count;
         int ret;
@@ -777,17 +777,21 @@ trace_selftest_startup_hw_branches(struct tracer *trace,
          * The hw-branch tracer needs to collect the trace from the various
          * cpu trace buffers - before tracing is stopped.
          */
-        memset(&iter, 0, sizeof(iter));
+        iter = kzalloc(sizeof(*iter), GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (!iter)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
         memcpy(&tracer, trace, sizeof(tracer));
 
-        iter.trace = &tracer;
-        iter.tr = tr;
-        iter.pos = -1;
-        mutex_init(&iter.mutex);
+        iter->trace = &tracer;
+        iter->tr = tr;
+        iter->pos = -1;
+        mutex_init(&iter->mutex);
 
-        trace->open(&iter);
+        trace->open(iter);
 
-        mutex_destroy(&iter.mutex);
+        mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex);
+        kfree(iter);
 
         tracing_stop();