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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-12-12 21:40:21 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-12-12 22:39:01 +0400
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dcache: allow word-at-a-time name hashing with big-endian CPUs
When explicitly hashing the end of a string with the word-at-a-time interface, we have to be careful which end of the word we pick up. On big-endian CPUs, the upper-bits will contain the data we're after, so ensure we generate our masks accordingly (and avoid hashing whatever random junk may have been sitting after the string). This patch adds a new dcache helper, bytemask_from_count, which creates a mask appropriate for the CPU endianness. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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