Re: [PATCH] tools/power turbostat: call pread64 in kernel directly

From: Len Brown
Date: Fri Aug 21 2020 - 14:50:23 EST


Re: offset size

The offsets on this file are the MSR offsets.
What MSR are you trying to access at offset 0xc0010299?

Re: pread vs pread64

If I take on faith that you have some kind of 32-bit execution
environment that makes pread into pread32 instead of pread64, and that
truncates an off_t to 32-bits from 64-bits, and it actually makes
sense to request a read at this large offset...

would we really have to invoke syscall() directly -- couldn't we
invoke pread64() directly? (eg. below)

thanks,
-Len


@@ -490,11 +491,12 @@ int get_msr_fd(int cpu)
return fd;
}

-int get_msr(int cpu, off_t offset, unsigned long long *msr)
+int get_msr(int cpu, unsigned long long offset, unsigned long long *msr)
{
ssize_t retval;

- retval = pread(get_msr_fd(cpu), msr, sizeof(*msr), offset);
+ retval = pread64(get_msr_fd(cpu), msr, sizeof(*msr), offset);

if (retval != sizeof *msr)
err(-1, "cpu%d: msr offset 0x%llx read failed", cpu,
(unsigned long long)offset);

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:17 PM Liwei Song <liwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> with multilib lib32 support, the rootfs will be 32-bit,
> the kernel is still 64-bit, in this case run turbostat
> will failed with "out of range" error.
>
> Thanks,
> Liwei.
>
> On 8/14/20 05:43, Len Brown wrote:
> > Huh?
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:09 AM Liwei Song <liwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> with 32-bit rootfs, the offset may out of range when set it
> >> to 0xc0010299, define it as "unsigned long long" type and
> >> call pread64 directly in kernel.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Liwei Song <liwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 5 +++--
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> >> index 33b370865d16..4c5cdfcb5721 100644
> >> --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> >> +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> >> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> >> #include <sys/capability.h>
> >> #include <errno.h>
> >> #include <math.h>
> >> +#include <sys/syscall.h>
> >>
> >> char *proc_stat = "/proc/stat";
> >> FILE *outf;
> >> @@ -381,11 +382,11 @@ int get_msr_fd(int cpu)
> >> return fd;
> >> }
> >>
> >> -int get_msr(int cpu, off_t offset, unsigned long long *msr)
> >> +int get_msr(int cpu, unsigned long long offset, unsigned long long *msr)
> >> {
> >> ssize_t retval;
> >>
> >> - retval = pread(get_msr_fd(cpu), msr, sizeof(*msr), offset);
> >> + retval = syscall(SYS_pread64, get_msr_fd(cpu), msr, sizeof(*msr), offset);
> >>
> >> if (retval != sizeof *msr)
> >> err(-1, "cpu%d: msr offset 0x%llx read failed", cpu, (unsigned long long)offset);
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >>
> >
> >



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Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center