On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 06:09:08PM +0800, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> strcut __qrwlock has different layout in big endian machine. we need set
> the __qrwlock->wmode to NULL, and the address is not &lock->cnts in big
> endian machine.
>
> Do as what read unlock does. we are lucky that the __qrwlock->wmode's
> val is _QW_LOCKED.
Doesn't this have wider implications for the qrwlocks, for example:
while ((cnts & _QW_WMASK) == _QW_LOCKED) { ... }
would actually end up looking at the wrong field of the lock?
Shouldn't we just remove the #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN stuff from __qrwlock,
given that all the struct members are u8?
Will
