linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN or warn for inconsistencies

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Date:   Thu,  8 Jun 2017 15:17:21 -0700
From:   Babu Moger <babu.moger@...cle.com>
To:     ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
        jonas@...thpole.se, stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi,
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN or warn for inconsistencies

Found this problem while enabling queued rwlock on SPARC.
The parameter CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is used to clear the
specific byte in qrwlock structure. Without this parameter,
we clear the wrong byte. Here is the code.

static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
  {
         return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
  }

Here is the previous discussion.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg178101.html

Based on the discussion, it was decided to add CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
for all the fixed big endian architecture(frv, h8300, m68k, openrisc,
parisc and sparc). And warn if there are inconsistencies in this definition.

Babu Moger (2):
  arch: Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for all fixed big endian archs
  include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition

 arch/frv/Kconfig                        |    3 +++
 arch/h8300/Kconfig                      |    3 +++
 arch/m68k/Kconfig                       |    3 +++
 arch/openrisc/Kconfig                   |    3 +++
 arch/parisc/Kconfig                     |    3 +++
 arch/sparc/Kconfig                      |    3 +++
 include/linux/byteorder/big_endian.h    |    4 ++++
 include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h |    4 ++++
 8 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)