[RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Wed May 5 02:08:23 EST 2010
On 05/04/2010 06:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
>
>> Although we can use *_le_bit() helpers to treat bitmaps le arranged,
>> having le bit offset calculation as a seperate macro gives us more freedom.
>>
>> For example, KVM has le arranged dirty bitmaps for VGA, live-migration
>> and they are used in user space too. To avoid bitmap copies between kernel
>> and user space, we want to update the bitmaps in user space directly.
>> To achive this, le bit offset with *_user() functions help us a lot.
>>
>> So let us use the le bit offset calculation part by defining it as a new
>> macro: generic_le_bit_offset() .
>>
> Does this work correctly if your user space is 32 bits (i.e. unsigned long
> is different size in user space and kernel) in both big- and little-endian
> systems?
>
> I'm not sure about all the details, but I think you cannot in general share
> bitmaps between user space and kernel because of this.
>
That's why the bitmaps are defined as little endian u64 aligned, even on
big endian 32-bit systems. Little endian bitmaps are wordsize agnostic,
and u64 alignment ensures we can use long-sized bitops on mixed size
systems.
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