Re: [PATCHv2] perf bpf: Fix endianness problem when loading parameters in prologue

From: Wangnan (F)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 04:48:01 EST




On 2017/8/15 14:42, Thomas-Mich Richter wrote:
On 08/14/2017 06:39 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 01:46:44PM +0200, Thomas Richter escreveu:
Perf BPF prologue generator unconditionally fetches 8 bytes for function
parameters, which causes problem on big endian machine. Thomas gives a
detail analysis for this problem:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/968ebda5-abe4-8830-8d69-49f62529d151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This patch parses the type of each argument and converts data from
memory to expected type.

Now the test runs successfully on 4.13.0-rc5:
[root@s8360046 perf]# ./perf test bpf
38: BPF filter :
38.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
38.2: BPF pinning : Ok
38.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
38.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
[root@s8360046 perf]#

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>

That is strange, who is the author of the patch? Also I think Tested-by
is enough, being an even stronger form of Acked-by?

But then you also have Signed-off-by: Wang in there...

From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:

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12) When to use Acked-by: and Cc:
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The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.

If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a
patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can
ask to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog.

Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that
maintainer neither contributed to nor forwarded the patch.

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If Wang wrote the original patch and you made it better working together
with him, probably having both of you in Signed-off-by lines should be
enough?

- Arnaldo

Ok, my fault then.
Wang wrote to patch in the first place, I just fixed one line.
Should I resend the patch and delete the Acked-by/Tested-by lines
in the commit message?

Yes, please resend it.

Thanks