Re: linux-next: manual merge of the gpio tree with the tip tree

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:59:52PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> diff --cc include/linux/bitops.h
> index 15a5bcfcd0a2,9a874deee6e2..000000000000
> --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> @@@ -227,32 -227,30 +227,56 @@@ static inline unsigned long __ffs64(u6
>   	return __ffs((unsigned long)word);
>   }
>   
>  +/*
>  + * clear_bit32 - Clear a bit in memory for u32 array
>  + * @nr: Bit to clear
>  + * @addr: u32 * address of bitmap
>  + *
>  + * Same as clear_bit, but avoids needing casts for u32 arrays.
>  + */
>  +
>  +static __always_inline void clear_bit32(long nr, volatile u32 *addr)
>  +{
>  +	clear_bit(nr, (volatile unsigned long *)addr);
>  +}
>  +
>  +/*
>  + * set_bit32 - Set a bit in memory for u32 array
>  + * @nr: Bit to clear
>  + * @addr: u32 * address of bitmap
>  + *
>  + * Same as set_bit, but avoids needing casts for u32 arrays.
>  + */
>  +
>  +static __always_inline void set_bit32(long nr, volatile u32 *addr)
>  +{
>  +	set_bit(nr, (volatile unsigned long *)addr);
>  +}

How is that not fundamentally broken for big-endian?