The patch titled
mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess
From: Chris Dearman <chris@xxxxxxxx>
When checking for the swap header try byteswapping the endianess dependent
fields to allow the swap partition to be shared between big & little endian
systems.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess mm/swapfile.c
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1582,6 +1582,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __
error = -EINVAL;
goto bad_swap;
case 2:
+ /* swap partition endianess hack... */
+ if (swab32(swap_header->info.version) == 1) {
+ swab32s(&swap_header->info.version);
+ swab32s(&swap_header->info.last_page);
+ swab32s(&swap_header->info.nr_badpages);
+ for (i = 0; i < swap_header->info.nr_badpages; i++)
+ swab32s(&swap_header->info.badpages[i]);
+ }
/* Check the swap header's sub-version and the size of
the swap file and bad block lists */
if (swap_header->info.version != 1) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from chris@xxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-mips.patch
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