From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH 16/26] x86: Convert print_symbol to %pSR
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:35:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CA4A3F.5040302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121213190544.GD31485@liondog.tnic>
On 12/13/2012 11:05 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Ok, I grok it now. So, in most cases, mce.ip comes from pt_regs.ip which
> is unsigned long so we're fine for both 32- and 64-bit. There's only the
> case with precise RIP reporting where we get the rip from an MSR but
> even then, it should be 4 bytes on 32-bit since our addresses there are
> 4 bytes.
>
> So, actually struct mce should've had ->ip defined as an unsigned long
> from the very beginning. But we can't change that now because this
> struct is shared with userspace :(
>
Good thing, then,. otherwise we'd have a compat headache.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 18:18 [Cluster-devel] [TRIVIAL PATCH 00/26] treewide: Add and use vsprintf extension %pSR Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 01/26] vsprintf: Add extension %pSR - print_symbol replacement Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 02/26] alpha: Convert print_symbol to %pSR Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 03/26] arm: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 04/26] arm64: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 18:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-13 18:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 05/26] avr32: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 06/26] c6x: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 07/26] ia64: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 08/26] m32r: " Joe Perches
2012-12-13 3:06 ` Hirokazu Takata
2013-04-29 13:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-04-30 12:56 ` Joe Perches
2013-04-30 21:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 09/26] mn10300: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:18 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 10/26] openrisc: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 11/26] powerpc: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-13 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-10 5:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-01-10 5:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-01-10 17:00 ` Joe Perches
2013-01-10 17:00 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 12/26] s390: " Joe Perches
2012-12-13 1:22 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 13/26] sh: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 14/26] um: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 15/26] unicore32: " Joe Perches
[not found] ` <001d01cdd8cd$371dfd60$a559f820$@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
2012-12-13 1:21 ` 答复: " Joe Perches
2012-12-13 2:00 ` Chen Gang
2012-12-13 2:26 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <19e6ea369e4455fc447c48f72bd433921bd0a703.1355335228.git.joe@perches.c om>
2012-12-13 5:05 ` guanxuetao
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 16/26] x86: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 21:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-12 21:30 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 21:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-12 21:49 ` Luck, Tony
2012-12-12 22:23 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 22:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 18:23 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 18:23 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 18:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 18:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 18:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 19:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 21:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-12-13 18:57 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 18:57 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 17/26] xtensa: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 18/26] drivers: base: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [TRIVIAL PATCH 19/26] gfs2: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-13 10:57 ` [Cluster-devel] " Steven Whitehouse
2012-12-13 10:57 ` Steven Whitehouse
2013-04-29 13:23 ` [Cluster-devel] " Jiri Kosina
2013-04-29 13:23 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 20/26] sysfs: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 21/26] irq: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 22/26] smp_processor_id: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 23/26] mm: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` Joe Perches
2012-12-12 20:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-12-12 20:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-04-29 13:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-04-29 13:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 24/26] xtensa: " Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 25/26] x86: head_64.S: Use vsprintf extension %pSR not print_symbol Joe Perches
2012-12-12 18:19 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 26/26] kallsyms: Remove print_symbol Joe Perches
2012-12-12 19:30 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH V2 24/26] Documentation: Convert print_symbol to %pSR Joe Perches
2012-12-13 1:43 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH V2 12/26] s390: " Joe Perches
2012-12-13 19:13 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH V2 16/26] x86: " Joe Perches
2013-01-08 5:52 ` [TRIVIAL PATCH 00/26] treewide: Add and use vsprintf extension %pSR Joe Perches
2013-01-08 20:33 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-02-20 6:00 ` Joe Perches
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