Re: [PATCH] tracing/user_events: align uaddr on unsigned long alignment
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2023-09-14 17:29:38
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2023-09-14 17:29:38
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:17:00 -0400 Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] 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