Re: 64-bit little endian semaphore bug

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:37:38PM -0800, Kip Walker wrote:

> In the 64-bit kernel, the semaphore structure (like the 32-bit kernel)
> has waking and count fields swizzled so they line up the same in a
> 64-bit double word for either endian.  However, the semaphore-helper.h
> function waking_non_zero_interruptible still has specialized code for
> little-endian manipulation of the fields as though they are swapped.
> 
> Patch is attached, and fixes a pipe deadlock I was seeing (both the
> reader and writer were down'ing the semaphore).
> 
> patch is against 2.5, but should be clean against 2.4 also.

Patch is ok.  I tweaked it slightly to make the 2.4 and 2.5 versions
identical.

General request to everybody - cc me on all patches that you wish to
submit even if you're posting them to some list.

  Ralf