linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qeth: Convert use of __constant

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:42:42 +0200
From:	Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>
Cc:	Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ibm.com>, linux390@...ibm.com,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qeth: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons

Thanks Vaishali. I have added your patch to our local kernel git, and
will submit it within a following upstream shipment.

Regards, Ursula Braun

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 16:22 +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
> In little endian cases, the macro htons unfolds to __swab16 which
> provides special case for constants. In big endian cases,
> __constant_htons and htons expand directly to the same expression.
> So, replace __constant_htons with htons with the goal of getting
> rid of the definition of __constant_htons completely.
> 
> The semantic patch that performs this transformation is as follows:
> 
> @@expression x;@@
> 
> - __constant_htons(x)
> + htons(x)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
> index 0ea0869..a124f59 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static void qeth_l2_fill_header(struct qeth_card *card, struct qeth_hdr *hdr,
>  	/* VSWITCH relies on the VLAN
>  	 * information to be present in
>  	 * the QDIO header */
> -	if (veth->h_vlan_proto == __constant_htons(ETH_P_8021Q)) {
> +	if (veth->h_vlan_proto == htons(ETH_P_8021Q)) {
>  		hdr->hdr.l2.flags[2] |= QETH_LAYER2_FLAG_VLAN;
>  		hdr->hdr.l2.vlan_id = ntohs(veth->h_vlan_TCI);
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> index 04e42c6..bd6b5a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> @@ -1887,13 +1887,13 @@ static inline int qeth_l3_rebuild_skb(struct qeth_card *card,
>  		case QETH_CAST_MULTICAST:
>  			switch (prot) {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_QETH_IPV6
> -			case __constant_htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
> +			case htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
>  				ndisc_mc_map((struct in6_addr *)
>  				     skb->data + 24,
>  				     tg_addr, card->dev, 0);
>  				break;
>  #endif
> -			case __constant_htons(ETH_P_IP):
> +			case htons(ETH_P_IP):
>  				ip_hdr = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;
>  				ip_eth_mc_map(ip_hdr->daddr, tg_addr);
>  				break;
> @@ -3015,7 +3015,7 @@ static int qeth_l3_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  			skb_copy_to_linear_data_offset(new_skb, 8,
>  				new_skb->data + 12, 4);
>  			tag = (u16 *)(new_skb->data + 12);
> -			*tag = __constant_htons(ETH_P_8021Q);
> +			*tag = htons(ETH_P_8021Q);
>  			*(tag + 1) = htons(skb_vlan_tag_get(new_skb));
>  		}
>  	}


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