perf events: Prefer union over variable length array

It is possible for casts to introduce alignment issues, prefer a union
for perf_record_event_update.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220614143353.1559597-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/event_update.c b/tools/perf/tests/event_update.c
index 78db4d704e76..d093a9b878d1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/event_update.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/event_update.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ static int process_event_unit(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
 
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->id == 123);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->type == PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__UNIT);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong unit", !strcmp(ev->data, "KRAVA"));
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong unit", !strcmp(ev->unit, "KRAVA"));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -31,13 +31,10 @@ static int process_event_scale(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
 			       struct machine *machine __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct perf_record_event_update *ev = (struct perf_record_event_update *)event;
-	struct perf_record_event_update_scale *ev_data;
-
-	ev_data = (struct perf_record_event_update_scale *)ev->data;
 
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->id == 123);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->type == PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__SCALE);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong scale", ev_data->scale == 0.123);
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong scale", ev->scale.scale == 0.123);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ static int process_event_name(struct perf_tool *tool,
 
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->id == 123);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->type == PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__NAME);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong name", !strcmp(ev->data, tmp->name));
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong name", !strcmp(ev->name, tmp->name));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -66,12 +63,9 @@ static int process_event_cpus(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
 			      struct machine *machine __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct perf_record_event_update *ev = (struct perf_record_event_update *)event;
-	struct perf_record_event_update_cpus *ev_data;
 	struct perf_cpu_map *map;
 
-	ev_data = (struct perf_record_event_update_cpus *) ev->data;
-
-	map = cpu_map__new_data(&ev_data->cpus);
+	map = cpu_map__new_data(&ev->cpus.cpus);
 
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong id", ev->id == 123);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("wrong type", ev->type == PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__CPUS);