Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'

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On Friday, September 25, 2015 10:26:22 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, September 25, 2015 11:52:56 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 25-09-15, 20:49, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Ok, then, but that means Rafael is completely wrong ...
> > > debugfs_create_bool() takes a *pointer* and it needs to be long-lived,
> > > it can't be on the stack. You also don't get a call when it changes.
> > 
> > Ahh, ofcourse. My bad as well...
> 
> Well, sorry about the wrong suggestion.
> 
> > I think we can change structure definition but will wait for Rafael's
> > comment before that.
> 
> OK, change the structure then.

But here's a question.

You're going to change that into bool in the next patch, right?

So what if bool is a byte and the field is not word-aligned and changing
that byte requires a read-modify-write.  How do we ensure that things remain
consistent in that case?

Thanks,
Rafael

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