1 files changed, 20 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index c6814616653b..97c84a58efb8 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -33,12 +33,7 @@ struct tracepoint {
         void (*regfunc)(void);
         void (*unregfunc)(void);
         struct tracepoint_func __rcu *funcs;
-} __attribute__((aligned(32)));         /*
-                                         * Aligned on 32 bytes because it is
-                                         * globally visible and gcc happily
-                                         * align these on the structure size.
-                                         * Keep in sync with vmlinux.lds.h.
-                                         */
+};
 
 /*
  * Connect a probe to a tracepoint.
@@ -61,15 +56,15 @@ extern void tracepoint_probe_update_all(void);
 
 struct tracepoint_iter {
         struct module *module;
-        struct tracepoint *tracepoint;
+        struct tracepoint * const *tracepoint;
 };
 
 extern void tracepoint_iter_start(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
 extern void tracepoint_iter_next(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
 extern void tracepoint_iter_stop(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
 extern void tracepoint_iter_reset(struct tracepoint_iter *iter);
-extern int tracepoint_get_iter_range(struct tracepoint **tracepoint,
-        struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end);
+extern int tracepoint_get_iter_range(struct tracepoint * const **tracepoint,
+        struct tracepoint * const *begin, struct tracepoint * const *end);
 
 /*
  * tracepoint_synchronize_unregister must be called between the last tracepoint
@@ -84,11 +79,13 @@ static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
 #define PARAMS(args...) args
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
-extern void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
-        struct tracepoint *end);
+extern
+void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint * const *begin,
+        struct tracepoint * const *end);
 #else
-static inline void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
-        struct tracepoint *end)
+static inline
+void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint * const *begin,
+        struct tracepoint * const *end)
 { }
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */
 
@@ -174,12 +171,20 @@ do_trace:								\
         {                                                               \
         }
 
+/*
+ * We have no guarantee that gcc and the linker won't up-align the tracepoint
+ * structures, so we create an array of pointers that will be used for iteration
+ * on the tracepoints.
+ */
 #define DEFINE_TRACE_FN(name, reg, unreg)                               \
         static const char __tpstrtab_##name[]                           \
         __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_strings"))) = #name;      \
         struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name                           \
-        __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"), aligned(32))) =        \
-                { __tpstrtab_##name, 0, reg, unreg, NULL }
+        __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"))) =                     \
+                { __tpstrtab_##name, 0, reg, unreg, NULL };             \
+        static struct tracepoint * const __tracepoint_ptr_##name __used \
+        __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_ptrs"))) =                \
+                &__tracepoint_##name;
 
 #define DEFINE_TRACE(name)                                              \
         DEFINE_TRACE_FN(name, NULL, NULL);