[PATCH] ARM64: disable DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS in big endian case

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Apr 23 05:38:45 PDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:37:11AM +0100, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> Hi Will,

Hi Victor,

Thanks for investigating this!

> On 22 April 2014 02:46, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:36:10PM +0100, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> The issue turned out to be in another commit: "word-at-a-time:
> provide generic big-endian zero_bytemask implementation". Because
> of the issue in zero_bytemask function full_name_hash and
> hash_name were giving different hash results for the same path
> name (without slash). The issue is that (~0ul << 64) gives
> ~0ul not 0. I could not come up with more elegant solution other
> than use inline function that check shift value against type maximum
> width. Please take a look below.

Ah yes, we're in UNDEFINED territory here and AArch64 differs from AArch32
wrt LSL >= register width. Can you try the following instead of your patch
please? I think it should be more efficient.

Cheers,

Will

--->8

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h b/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
index d3909effd725..243ce8c84ee9 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -50,11 +50,7 @@ static inline bool has_zero(unsigned long val, unsigned long *data, const struct
 }
 
 #ifndef zero_bytemask
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
-#define zero_bytemask(mask)    (~0ul << fls64(mask))
-#else
-#define zero_bytemask(mask)    (~0ul << fls(mask))
-#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
+#define zero_bytemask(mask)    (mask ? ~0ul << __fls(mask) << 1 : ~0ul)
 #endif /* zero_bytemask */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H */



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