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

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28T06:34:28Z

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> 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