linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] KVM: s390: Don't cast parameter in bit operations

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Message-ID: <Yh+qDhd6FL9nlQdD@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 19:31:58 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc:     Michael Mueller <mimu@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] KVM: s390: Don't cast parameter in bit operations

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 09:18:35AM -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 05:44:03PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 01:10:34PM +0100, Michael Mueller wrote:
> > > On 24.02.22 12:36, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > we do that at several places
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing out.
> > 
> > > arch/s390/kernel/processor.c:	for_each_set_bit_inv(bit, (long
> > > *)&stfle_fac_list, MAX_FACILITY_BIT)
> > 
> > This one requires a separate change, not related to this patch.
> > 
> > > arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c:	set_bit_inv(IPM_BIT_OFFSET + gisc, (unsigned long
> > > *) gisa);
> > 
> > This is done in the patch. Not sure how it appears in your list.
> > 
> > > arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c:		set_bit_inv(vcpu->vcpu_id, (unsigned long *)
> > > sca->mcn);
> > > arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c:		set_bit_inv(vcpu->vcpu_id, (unsigned long *)
> > > &sca->mcn);
> > 
> > These two should be fixed in a separate change.
> > 
> > Also this kind of stuff:
> > 
> > 	bitmap_copy(kvm->arch.cpu_feat, (unsigned long *) data.feat,
> > 	            KVM_S390_VM_CPU_FEAT_NR_BITS);
> > 
> > might require a new API like
> > 
> > bitmap_from_u64_array()
> > bitmap_to_u64_array()
> > 
> > Yury?
> 
> If BE32 is still the case then yes.

The whole point is to get rid of the bad pattern, while it may still work
in the particular case.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko