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Message-Id: <632e6ce5-afc6-5507-ef91-fddf727992ff@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:41:50 +0530
From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/perf: fix the word selected in find_*_bit
On Thursday 16 June 2016 02:41 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:51:27PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
>> Hi Madhavan,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:12:53PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>>> When decoding the perf_regs mask in regs_dump__printf(),
>>> we loop through the mask using find_first_bit and find_next_bit functions.
>>> And mask is of type "u64". But "u64" is send as a "unsigned long *" to
>>> lib functions along with sizeof().
>>>
>>> While the exisitng code works fine in most of the case, when using a 32bit perf
>>> on a 64bit kernel (Big Endian), we end reading the wrong word. In find_first_bit(),
>>> one word at a time (based on BITS_PER_LONG) is loaded and
>>> checked for any bit set. In 32bit BE userspace,
>>> BITS_PER_LONG turns out to be 32, and for a mask value of
>>> "0x00000000000000ff", find_first_bit will return 32, instead of 0.
>>> Reason for this is that, value in the word0 is all zeros and value
>>> in word1 is 0xff. Ideally, second word in the mask should be loaded
>>> and searched. Patch swaps the word to look incase of 32bit BE.
>> I think this is not a problem of find_bit() at all. You have wrong
>> typecast as the source of problem (tools/perf/util/session.c"):
>>
>> 940 static void regs_dump__printf(u64 mask, u64 *regs)
>> 941 {
>> 942 unsigned rid, i = 0;
>> 943
>> 944 for_each_set_bit(rid, (unsigned long *) &mask, sizeof(mask) * 8) {
>> ^^^^ Here ^^^^
>> 945 u64 val = regs[i++];
>> 946
>> 947 printf(".... %-5s 0x%" PRIx64 "\n",
>> 948 perf_reg_name(rid), val);
>> 949 }
>> 950 }
>>
>> But for some reason you change correct find_bit()...
>>
>> Though proper fix is like this for me:
>>
>> static void regs_dump__printf(u64 mask, u64 *regs)
>> {
>> unsigned rid, i = 0;
>> unsigned long _mask[sizeof(mask)/sizeof(unsigned long)];
>>
>> _mask[0] = mask & ULONG_MAX;
>> if (sizeof(mask) > sizeof(unsigned long))
>> _mask[1] = mask >> BITS_PER_LONG;
>>
>> for_each_set_bit(rid, _mask, sizeof(mask) * BITS_PER_BYTE) {
>> u64 val = regs[i++];
>>
>> printf(".... %-5s 0x%" PRIx64 "\n",
>> perf_reg_name(rid), val);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Maybe there already is some macro doing the conversion for you...
> yes it is, cpu_to_le64() is what you want
no wait, on second look, cpu_to_le64() is not right.
Because we will end up swapping within 32bit.
But what you suggested looks to be fine. I can repost
this with one minor tweak, right shift with 32 instead
of BITS_PER_LONG (since I see compiler errors in 64bit).
Maddy
>
>> Yury.
>>
>>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
>>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
>>> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>>> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
>>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
>>> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
>>> Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
>>> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> tools/lib/find_bit.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/lib/find_bit.c b/tools/lib/find_bit.c
>>> index 9122a9e80046..996b3e04324f 100644
>>> --- a/tools/lib/find_bit.c
>>> +++ b/tools/lib/find_bit.c
>>> @@ -37,7 +37,12 @@ static unsigned long _find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
>>> if (!nbits || start >= nbits)
>>> return nbits;
>>>
>>> +#if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN) && (BITS_PER_LONG != 64)
>>> + tmp = addr[(((nbits - 1)/BITS_PER_LONG) - (start / BITS_PER_LONG))]
>>> + ^ invert;
>>> +#else
>>> tmp = addr[start / BITS_PER_LONG] ^ invert;
>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> /* Handle 1st word. */
>>> tmp &= BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start);
>>> @@ -48,7 +53,12 @@ static unsigned long _find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
>>> if (start >= nbits)
>>> return nbits;
>>>
>>> +#if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN) && (BITS_PER_LONG != 64)
>>> + tmp = addr[(((nbits - 1)/BITS_PER_LONG) - (start / BITS_PER_LONG))]
>>> + ^ invert;
>>> +#else
>>> tmp = addr[start / BITS_PER_LONG] ^ invert;
>>> +#endif
>>> }
>>>
>>> return min(start + __ffs(tmp), nbits);
>>> @@ -75,8 +85,15 @@ unsigned long find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size)
>>> unsigned long idx;
>>>
>>> for (idx = 0; idx * BITS_PER_LONG < size; idx++) {
>>> +#if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN) && (BITS_PER_LONG != 64)
>>> + if (addr[(((size-1)/BITS_PER_LONG) - idx)])
>>> + return min(idx * BITS_PER_LONG +
>>> + __ffs(addr[(((size-1)/BITS_PER_LONG) - idx)]),
>>> + size);
>>> +#else
>>> if (addr[idx])
>>> return min(idx * BITS_PER_LONG + __ffs(addr[idx]), size);
>>> +#endif
>>> }
>>>
>>> return size;
>>> --
>>> 1.9.1
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