Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86: vdso: Introduce asm/vdso/page.h

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>]

Hi Arnd,

Le 06/09/2024 à 21:19, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2024, at 11:20, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> On 04/09/2024 15:52, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, at 15:14, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> Looking at the definition of PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK for each architecture they
>> all depend on CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT but they are slightly different, e.g.:
>>
>> x86:
>> #define PAGE_SIZE        (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>>
>> powerpc:
>> #define PAGE_SIZE        (ASM_CONST(1) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>>
>> hence I left to the architecture the responsibility of redefining the constants
>> for the VSDO.
> 
> ASM_CONST() is a powerpc-specific macro that is defined the
> same way as _AC(). We could probably just replace all ASM_CONST()
> as a cleanup, but for this purpose, just remove the custom PAGE_SIZE
> and PAGE_SHIFT macros. This can be a single patch fro all
> architectures.
> 

I'm not worried about _AC versus ASM_CONST, but I am by the 1UL versus 1.

The two functions below don't provide the same result:

#define PAGE_SIZE (1 << 12)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE - 1))

unsigned long long f(unsigned long long x)
{
	return x & PAGE_MASK;
}

#define PAGE_SIZE_2 (1UL << 12)
#define PAGE_MASK_2 (~(PAGE_SIZE_2 - 1))

unsigned long long g(unsigned long long x)
{
	return x & PAGE_MASK_2;
}

00000000 <f>:
    0:	54 84 00 26 	clrrwi  r4,r4,12
    4:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

00000008 <g>:
    8:	54 84 00 26 	clrrwi  r4,r4,12
    c:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
   10:	4e 80 00 20 	blr


This can be a problem on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits phys_addr_t

Christophe