On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 03:06:33PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 05:31 AM, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> >This patch aims to get rid of endianness in queued_write_unlock(). We
> >want to set  __qrwlock->wmode to NULL, however the address is not
> >&lock->cnts in big endian machine. That causes queued_write_unlock()
> >write NULL to the wrong field of __qrwlock.
> >
> >Actually qrwlock can have same layout, IOW we can remove the #if
> >__little_endian in struct __qrwlock. With such modification, we only
> >need define some _QW* and _QR* with corresponding values in different
> >endian systems.
> >
> >Suggested-by: Will Deacon<[email protected]>
> >Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui<[email protected]>
> >---
> >change from v1:
> >     A typo fix which is really bad...
> >     thanks Will for the carefull review. :)
> >---
> >  include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | 15 +++++++++++----
> >  kernel/locking/qrwlock.c      | 10 ++++------
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> >index 54a8e65..28fb94a 100644
> >--- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> >+++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> >@@ -27,11 +27,18 @@
> >  /*
> >   * Writer states&  reader shift and bias
> >   */
> >-#define     _QW_WAITING     1               /* A writer is waiting     */
> >-#define     _QW_LOCKED      0xff            /* A writer holds the lock */
> >-#define     _QW_WMASK       0xff            /* Writer mask             */
> >+#ifdef      __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >  #define    _QR_SHIFT       8               /* Reader count shift      */
> >-#define _QR_BIAS    (1U<<  _QR_SHIFT)
> >+#define     _QW_SHIFT       0               /* Writer mode shift    */
> >+#else
> >+#define     _QR_SHIFT       0               /* Reader count shift      */
> >+#define     _QW_SHIFT       24              /* Writer mode shift    */
> >+#endif
> >+
> >+#define     _QW_WAITING     (1U<<  _QW_SHIFT)       /* A writer is waiting  
> >   */
> >+#define     _QW_LOCKED      (0xffU<<  _QW_SHIFT)    /* A writer holds the 
> >lock */
> >+#define     _QW_WMASK       (0xffU<<  _QW_SHIFT)    /* Writer mask          
> >   */
> >+#define     _QR_BIAS        (1U<<  _QR_SHIFT)
> >
> >  /*
> >   * External function declarations
> >diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> >index fec0823..57d66cf 100644
> >--- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> >+++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> >@@ -30,18 +30,15 @@ struct __qrwlock {
> >     union {
> >             atomic_t cnts;
> >             struct {
> >-#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >                     u8 wmode;       /* Writer mode   */
> >                     u8 rcnts[3];    /* Reader counts */
> >-#else
> >-                    u8 rcnts[3];    /* Reader counts */
> >-                    u8 wmode;       /* Writer mode   */
> >-#endif
> >             };
> >     };
> >     arch_spinlock_t lock;
> >  };
> >
> >+#define     _QW_MODEVAL(v)  ((v)>>  _QW_SHIFT)
> 
> I know what you are doing here, but it is a bit hard to understand it just
> by looking at the name of the macro itself. Maybe some other names like
> _QW_MASKVAL() or_QW_BYTEVAL(). You may also want to have a line of comment
> about it. Other than that, I don't see any problem with it.
> 
> Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>

I agree that the macro is ugly. I think I'd be inclined to drop it
altogether.

That said, the code looks correct to me:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Will

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