linux-kernel - Re: + unaligned-introduce-common-header.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811190919280.27671@anakin>
Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:21:48 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, harvey.harrison@...il.com,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
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	dhowells@...hat.com, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
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	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, takata@...ux-m32r.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
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	zankel@...silica.com, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + unaligned-introduce-common-header.patch added to -mm tree

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> Subject: unaligned: introduce common header
> From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> 
> There are two common cases in the kernel, one where unaligned access is OK
> for an arch and one where the arch uses a packed-struct for the native
> endianness and opencoded C byteshifting for the other endianness. 
> Consolidate these two implementations in asm-generic/unaligned.h
> 
> Arches that require no special handling of unaligned access can define
> _UNALIGNED_ACCESS_OK in their asm/unaligned.h before including the generic
> version.
> 
> +static inline void __put_le32_noalign(u8 *p, u32 val)
> +{
> +	__put_le16_noalign(p + 2, val >> 16);
> +	__put_le16_noalign(p, val);

Isn't it more logical to reverse the order, to store in increasing memory
locations:

	__put_le16_noalign(p, val);
	__put_le16_noalign(p + 2, val >> 16);

> +}
> +
> +static inline void __put_le64_noalign(u8 *p, u64 val)
> +{
> +	__put_le32_noalign(p + 4, val >> 32);
> +	__put_le32_noalign(p, val);

Same here:

	__put_le32_noalign(p, val);
	__put_le32_noalign(p + 4, val >> 32);

> +}

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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