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Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN

From Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
Date 2017-05-24 11:50 +0200
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> wrote:
> Found this problem while enabling queued rwlock on SPARC.
> The parameter CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is used to clear the
> specific byte in qrwlock structure. Without this parameter,
> we clear the wrong byte. Here is the code.
>
> static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
>  {
>         return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
>  }
>
> Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for SPARC to fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: HÃ¥kon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> index 908f019..2f58c16 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> @@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
>  config ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT
>         def_bool y
>
> +config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> +       bool
> +       default y if SPARC

def_bool y?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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[PATCH v3 0/7] Enable queued rwlock and queued spinlock for SPARC Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-23 23:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/7] kernel/locking: Fix compile error with qrwlock.c Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-23 23:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 6/7] arch/sparc: Introduce xchg16 for SPARC Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-23 23:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-23 23:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-24 11:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-24 16:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 7/7] arch/sparc: Enable queued spinlock support for SPARC Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-23 23:50 +0200

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