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Message-ID: <20230914132956.569dad45@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:29:56 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Clément Léger <cleger@...osinc.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/user_events: align uaddr on unsigned long
alignment
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:17:00 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> Now lets look at big endian layout:
>
> uaddr = 0xbeef0004
> enabler = 1;
>
> memory at 0xbeef0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02
> ^
> addr: 0xbeef0004
>
> (enabler is set )
>
> bitoffset = uaddr & (sizeof(unsigned long) - 1); bitoffset = 4
> bit_offset *= 8; bitoffset = 32
> uaddr &= ~(sizeof(unsigned long) - 1); uaddr = 0xbeef0000
>
> ptr = kaddr + (uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK);
>
> clear_bit(1 + 32, ptr);
>
> memory at 0xbeef0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02
> ^
> bit 33 of 0xbeef0000
>
> I don't think that's what you expected!
I believe the above can be fixed with:
bit_offset = uaddr & (sizeof(unsigned long) - 1);
if (bit_offset) {
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
bit_offest = 0;
#else
bit_offset *= BITS_PER_BYTE;
#endif
uaddr &= ~(sizeof(unsigned long) - 1);
}
-- Steve
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