linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/22] s390: introduce little endian bitops

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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:51:52 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/22] s390: introduce little endian bitops

2010/10/15 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>:
> On Friday 15 October 2010, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>> +#define __set_le_bit(nr, addr) \
>> +       __set_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define __clear_le_bit(nr, addr)       \
>> +       __clear_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define __test_and_set_le_bit(nr, addr)        \
>> +       __test_and_set_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define test_and_set_le_bit(lock, nr, addr)    \
>> +       test_and_set_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define __test_and_clear_le_bit(nr, addr)      \
>> +       __test_and_clear_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define test_and_clear_le_bit(lock, nr, addr)  \
>> +       test_and_clear_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>> +#define test_le_bit(nr, addr)  \
>> +       test_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>
> The test_and_clear_le_bit and test_and_set_le_bit calling conventions
> are a little surprising here. I would not pass the lock argument
> here but leave that to the ext2 wrapper:
>
> #define test_and_set_le_bit(nr, addr)    \
>       test_and_set_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
> #define test_and_clear_le_bit(nr, addr)  \
>       test_and_clear_bit((nr)^(__BITOPS_WORDSIZE - 8), (addr))
>
> #define ext2_set_bit_atomic(lock, nr, addr)       \
>       test_and_set_le_bit((nr), (unsigned long *)(addr))
> #define ext2_clear_bit_atomic(lock, nr, addr)     \
>       test_and_clear_le_bit((nr), (unsigned long *)(addr))
>
> Same thing on arm and m68k.

Oops,
test_and_{set,clear}_le_bit() is only used by ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic
and I had one additional patch that cleans up these definisions across
the architectures. So I didn't realize that mistake when I did cross
compile.
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