linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro

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Message-ID: <4BE04677.4060608@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 May 2010 19:08:23 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@...il.com>, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	agraf@...e.de, yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit
 offset macro

On 05/04/2010 06:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
>    
>> Although we can use *_le_bit() helpers to treat bitmaps le arranged,
>> having le bit offset calculation as a seperate macro gives us more freedom.
>>
>> For example, KVM has le arranged dirty bitmaps for VGA, live-migration
>> and they are used in user space too. To avoid bitmap copies between kernel
>> and user space, we want to update the bitmaps in user space directly.
>> To achive this, le bit offset with *_user() functions help us a lot.
>>
>> So let us use the le bit offset calculation part by defining it as a new
>> macro: generic_le_bit_offset() .
>>      
> Does this work correctly if your user space is 32 bits (i.e. unsigned long
> is different size in user space and kernel) in both big- and little-endian
> systems?
>
> I'm not sure about all the details, but I think you cannot in general share
> bitmaps between user space and kernel because of this.
>    

That's why the bitmaps are defined as little endian u64 aligned, even on 
big endian 32-bit systems.  Little endian bitmaps are wordsize agnostic, 
and u64 alignment ensures we can use long-sized bitops on mixed size 
systems.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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