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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] tools/perf: Fix the mask in regs_dump__printf and
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 05:27:25PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
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>
> On 2016/6/20 17:18, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:14:01PM +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.
> > > "mask" is of type "u64", but sent as a "unsigned long *" to
> > > lib functions along with sizeof(). While the exisitng code works fine in
> > > most of the case, the logic is broken when using a 32bit perf on a
> > > 64bit kernel (Big Endian). We end up reading the wrong word of the u64
> > > first in the lib functions.
> > hum, I still don't see why this happens.. why do we read the
> > wrong word in this case?
>
> If you read a u64 using (u32 *)(&val)[0] and (u32 *)(&val)[1]
> you can get wrong value. This is what _find_next_bit() is doing.
>
> In a big endian environment where 'unsigned long' is 32 bits
> long, "(u32 *)(&val)[0]" gets upper 32 bits, but without this patch
> perf assumes it gets lower 32 bits. The root cause is wrongly convert
> u64 value to bitmap.

i see, could you please put this into comment in the code?

also we could have common function for that, to keep it on
one place only, like bitmap_from_u64 or so

thanks,
jirka

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