The patch titled
     mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess.
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess.patch

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Subject: mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess.
From: Chris Dearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

When checking for the swap header try byteswapping the endianess dependent
fields to allow the swap partition to be shared between big & little endian
systems.

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 mm/swapfile.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess 
mm/swapfile.c
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1582,6 +1582,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __
                error = -EINVAL;
                goto bad_swap;
        case 2:
+               /* swap partition endianess hack... */
+               if (swab32(swap_header->info.version) == 1) {
+                       swab32s(&swap_header->info.version);
+                       swab32s(&swap_header->info.last_page);
+                       swab32s(&swap_header->info.nr_badpages);
+                       for (i = 0; i < swap_header->info.nr_badpages; i++)
+                               swab32s(&swap_header->info.badpages[i]);
+               }
                /* Check the swap header's sub-version and the size of
                    the swap file and bad block lists */
                if (swap_header->info.version != 1) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess.patch

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