linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND2] lib: fix bitmap_parse() on 64-bit big endian archs

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jun 2020 14:44:34 +0200
From:   Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@...opsys.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND2] lib: fix bitmap_parse() on 64-bit big endian
 archs

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 03:03:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:26 PM Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 2d6261583be0 ("lib: rework bitmap_parse()") does not
> > take into account order of halfwords on 64-bit big endian
> > architectures. As result (at least) Receive Packet Steering,
> > IRQ affinity masks and runtime kernel test "test_bitmap" get
> > broken on s390.
> 
> ...
> 
> > +#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
> 
> I think it's better to re-use existing patterns.
> 
> ipc/sem.c:1682:#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
> 
> > +static void save_x32_chunk(unsigned long *maskp, u32 chunk, int chunk_idx)
> > +{
> > +       maskp += (chunk_idx / 2);
> > +       ((u32 *)maskp)[(chunk_idx & 1) ^ 1] = chunk;
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +static void save_x32_chunk(unsigned long *maskp, u32 chunk, int chunk_idx)
> > +{
> > +       ((u32 *)maskp)[chunk_idx] = chunk;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> 
> See below.
> 
> ...
> 
> > -               end = bitmap_get_x32_reverse(start, end, bitmap++);
> > +               end = bitmap_get_x32_reverse(start, end, &chunk);
> >                 if (IS_ERR(end))
> >                         return PTR_ERR(end);
> > +
> > +               save_x32_chunk(maskp, chunk, chunk_idx++);
> 
> Can't we simple do
> 
>         int chunk_index = 0;
>         ...
>         do {
> #if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
>                end = bitmap_get_x32_reverse(start, end,
> bitmap[chunk_index ^ 1]);
> #else
>                end = bitmap_get_x32_reverse(start, end, bitmap[chunk_index]);
> #endif
>         ...
>         } while (++chunk_index);
> 
> ?

Well, unless we ignore coding style 21) Conditional Compilation
we could. Do you still insist it would be better?

Thanks for the review!

> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko