Re: [1/4] standardize bit waiting data type

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 01:35:38 EST


William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> void fastcall unlock_page(struct page *page)
>> {
>> + unsigned long *word = (unsigned long *)&page->flags;

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:17:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This will break if a little-endian 64-bit architecture elects to use a
> 32-bit page_flags_t.

You mean a big-endian one? I did check to be sure none did so; only
x86-64 does. Easy enough to dress up so BE arches can do it too.


-- wli
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