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

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:32:24 +0530
From:	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>
To:	Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.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 Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qeth: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Thanks Vaishali. I have added your patch to our local kernel git, and
> will submit it within a following upstream shipment.

Hi Ursula,

Can you please tell me when this patch is going to be added in
linux-next? I don't see them in linux-next and they are blocking
removal of these macros.

Do inform me in case there is any problem with this patch.

Thank You.

> 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));
>>               }
>>       }
>
>



-- 
Vaishali
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