Re: [PATCH 15/16] bcache: Fix an endianness bug

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On 16/03/2018 11:00 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 12:47 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
>> The code still does not work with your patch on big endian machine (e.g.
>> s390x). When I fix the bcache s390x bug, I did something like this patch
>> in my first try. It turns out more things need to be fixed,
>> 1, some cache_sb members only swapped to cpu endianness when read in,
>> not swapped to little endian when write out. For example data_offset,
>> nbuckets, nr_in_set, nr_this_dev ...
>> 2, checksum is calculated in cpu endiannness, not explicitly in little
>> endian.
>>
>> Also user space tools need to update to support the endianness issue.
>>
>> How about leave the endianness problem to me? I will pick code piece
>> from your patch and set 'From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>'
>> on the patch(s), and continue my fix for bcache on s390x.
> 
> Hello Coly,
> 
> That sounds fine to me. Please let me know if you would like me to repost
> this series and/or address the feedback that I received for this patch series.

Hi Bart,

I see Mike already picks some of your patches, repost an updated version
for the rested patch should be a good idea.

Thanks.

Coly Li
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