tracing/synthetic: Use union instead of casts

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The current code uses a lot of casts to access the fields member in struct
synth_trace_events with different sizes.  This makes the code hard to
read, and had already introduced an endianness bug. Use a union and struct
instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816154928.4171614-2-svens@linux.ibm.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 00cf3d672a ("tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces")
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Sven Schnelle 2023-08-16 17:49:26 +02:00 • committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)

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include/linux/trace_events.h

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kernel/trace/trace.h

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kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c

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