[PATCH 4.14 057/159] bitops: Revert cbe96375025e ("bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h")

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 22 2017 - 04:50:52 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1943dc07b45e347c52c1bfdd4a37e04a86e399aa upstream.

These ops are not endian safe and may break on architectures which have
aligment requirements.

Reverts: cbe96375025e ("bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h")
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
include/linux/bitops.h | 26 --------------------------
1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -228,32 +228,6 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs64(u64
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);
-}
-
#ifdef __KERNEL__

#ifndef set_mask_bits