linux-kernel - Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH 16/26] x86: Convert print

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Message-ID: <20121213190544.GD31485@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:05:44 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
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	"user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
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Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH 16/26] x86: Convert print_symbol to %pSR

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:42:28AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 10:37 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >>
> >> If appropriate, the code could be changed to
> >>
> >> 	(void *)(unsigned long)m->ip
> > 
> > Can we explicitly cast it to what it is so that we can be explicit as to
> > what we're casting it? IOW:
> > 
> > 	(void *)(__u64)m->ip;
> > 
> > Does that even work on 32bit?
> > 
> > Also, does the compiler bitch about this useless cast when building with
> > W=123?
> > 
> 
> Uh... no.
> 
> The point is that (void *)(unsigned long) casts it to an integer of
> pointer size -- in userspace you would to (void *)(size_t) or (void
> *)(uintptr_t) -- so that the compiler knows "I meant to do that."

Ok, I grok it now. So, in most cases, mce.ip comes from pt_regs.ip which
is unsigned long so we're fine for both 32- and 64-bit. There's only the
case with precise RIP reporting where we get the rip from an MSR but
even then, it should be 4 bytes on 32-bit since our addresses there are
4 bytes.

So, actually struct mce should've had ->ip defined as an unsigned long
from the very beginning. But we can't change that now because this
struct is shared with userspace :(

So yes Joe, make it (void *)(unsigned long).

Thanks guys.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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