From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:35:30 -0700 > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> Dang. I guess it needs to be made "unsigned long" again. Which is a >> shame, because we only use a couple of bits from there, and "struct >> inode" really is much too big already. > > In the past it was usually enough to just align it to alignof(unsigned > long), not actually make it long. struct page went through this > a long time ago. 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. If this trick is being attempted elsewhere, I think it could perhaps account for some strange bugs :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
