linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: lz4: fixed zram with lz4 on big endian machines

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Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:41:58 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, eunb.song@...sung.com,
	minchan@...nel.org, chanho.min@....com, kyungsik.lee@....com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: lz4: fixed zram with lz4 on big endian
 machines

On (04/09/16 22:05), Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> Note that the 64-bit preprocessor test is not a cleanup, it's part of
> the fix, since those identifiers are bogus (for example, __ppc64__
> isn't defined anywhere else in the kernel, which means we'd fall into
> the 32-bit definitions on ppc64).

good find.

> Tested on ppc64 with no regression on x86_64.
> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145994470805853&w=4
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

	-ss