[PATCH 01/14] ARM: bitops: ensure set/clear/change bitops take a word-aligned pointer

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Jan 25 14:50:39 EST 2011


* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [110117 11:20]:
> Add additional instructions to our assembly bitops functions to ensure
> that they only operate on word-aligned pointers.  This will be necessary
> when we switch these operations to use the word-based exclusive
> operations.

If it's still not too late, we've had this in the testing branch
in the linux-omap tree for about a week now. So far no problems,
for me file systems tested have been ext3 and nfs.

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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