Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:14:02 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: reorganized struct inode results in unaligned accesses |
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> Hmmm, can this scheme actually work out properly on both big and > little endian? Because endianness determines whether the bits start > in the "lower addressed" 32-bit word or the "higher addressed" 32-bit > word.
True, it needs an ifdef, with the other order in BE. struct page has that iirc.
> > If this trick is being attempted elsewhere, I think it could perhaps > account for some strange bugs :-)
Well if you want to be sure better try to get rid of the void *
(I tried early on in x86-64, it caused a lot of warnings all over)
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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