Re: [BUG] lib: zram lz4 compression/decompression still broken on big endian
From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 09:09:22 EST
On (04/07/16 13:33), Rui Salvaterra wrote:
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> Hi again, Sergey
Hello,
> Thanks for the patch, I'll test it as soon as possible. I agree with
> your second option, usually one selects lz4 when (especially
> decompression) speed is paramount, so it needs all the help it can
> get.
thanks!
> Speaking of fishy, the 64-bit detection code also looks suspiciously
> bogus. Some of the identifiers don't even exist anywhere in the kernel
> (__ppc64__, por example, after grepping all .c and .h files).
> Shouldn't we instead check for CONFIG_64BIT or BITS_PER_LONG == 64?
definitely a good question. personally, I'd prefer to test for
CONFIG_64BIT only, looking at this hairy
/* Detects 64 bits mode */
#if (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__x86_64) || defined(__amd64__) \
|| defined(__ppc64__) || defined(__LP64__))
and remove/rewrite a bunch of other stuff. but the thing with cleanups
is that they don't fix anything, while potentially can introduce bugs.
it's more risky to touch the stable code. /* well, removing those 'ghost'
identifiers is sort of OK to me */. but that's just my opinion, I'll
leave it to you and Greg.
-ss