perf tools: Allow auxtrace data alignment
Allow auxtrace data to be a multiple of something other than page size.
That is needed for BTS where the buffer contains 24-byte records.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432906425-9911-11-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
index 3dab006..7e7405c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
@@ -1182,6 +1182,13 @@
data2 = NULL;
}
+ if (itr->alignment) {
+ unsigned int unwanted = len1 % itr->alignment;
+
+ len1 -= unwanted;
+ size -= unwanted;
+ }
+
/* padding must be written by fn() e.g. record__process_auxtrace() */
padding = size & 7;
if (padding)