On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:47:39PM +0800, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> From: pan xinhui <[email protected]>
> 
> This patch aims to get rid of endianness in queued_write_unlock(). We
> want to set  __qrwlock->wmode to NULL, however the address is not
> &lock->cnts in big endian machine. That causes queued_write_unlock()
> write NULL to the wrong field of __qrwlock.
> 
> So implement __qrwlock_write_byte() which returns the correct
> __qrwlock->wmode address.
> 
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <[email protected]>
> ---
> change from v3:
>       rewrite totally. :)
> change from v2:
>       change macro's name, add comments.
> change from v1:
>       A typo fix which is really bad...
>       thanks Will for the carefull review.
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> index 54a8e65..7d026bf 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> @@ -25,7 +25,20 @@
>  #include <asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h>
>  
>  /*
> - * Writer states & reader shift and bias
> + * Writer states & reader shift and bias.
> + *
> + *       | +0 | +1 | +2 | +3 |
> + *   ----+----+----+----+----+
> + *    LE | 78 | 56 | 34 | 12 | 0x12345678
> + *   ----+----+----+----+----+
> + *       | wr |      rd      |
> + *       +----+----+----+----+
> + *
> + *   ----+----+----+----+----+
> + *    BE | 12 | 34 | 56 | 78 | 0x12345678
> + *   ----+----+----+----+----+
> + *       |      rd      | wr |
> + *       +----+----+----+----+
>   */
>  #define      _QW_WAITING     1               /* A writer is waiting     */
>  #define      _QW_LOCKED      0xff            /* A writer holds the lock */
> @@ -134,12 +147,22 @@ static inline void queued_read_unlock(struct qrwlock 
> *lock)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * __qrwlock_write_byte - retrieve the write byte address of a queue rwlock
> + * @lock : Pointer to queue rwlock structure
> + * Return: the write byte address of a queue rwlock
> + */
> +static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
> +{
> +     return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
> +}

Might be worth a comment here, saying that IS_BUILTIN expands to 1 or 0.

Either way, the patch looks correct to me:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Will

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