linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/21] ceph: nfs re-export support

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Message-ID: <4A3D5301.9010706@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:22:09 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/21] ceph: nfs re-export support

Sage Weil wrote:
> I've done the same thing in a bunch of other places, too, the 
> big offender being decode.h, where e.g.
> 
> 		v = le64_to_cpu(*(__le64 *)*(p));	\
>                 *(p) += sizeof(u64);                    \
> 
> should be
> 
>                 v = le64_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__le64 *)*(p)));       \
>                 *(p) += sizeof(u64);                    \

Endian conversion and unaligned access can be combined, e.g.

		v = get_unaligned_le64(*p);

if p is a pointer to a pointer to an unaligned __le64.  These too come 
via <asm/unaligned.h> and are available since 2.6.26.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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