mainlining shenanigans
ca0b709d1a
As reported by Guenter Roeck, the new bit-locking using
BIT(1) doesn't work on the m68k architecture. m68k only requires
2-byte alignment for words and longwords, so there is only one
unused bit in pointers to structs - We current use two, one for the
NULLS marker at the end of the linked list, and one for the bit-lock
in the head of the list.
The two uses don't need to conflict as we never need the head of the
list to be a NULLS marker - the marker is only needed to check if an
object has moved to a different table, and the bucket head cannot
move. The NULLS marker is only needed in a ->next pointer.
As we already have different types for the bucket head pointer (struct
rhash_lock_head) and the ->next pointers (struct rhash_head), it is
fairly easy to treat the lsb differently in each.
So: Initialize buckets heads to NULL, and use the lsb for locking.
When loading the pointer from the bucket head, if it is NULL (ignoring
the lock big), report as being the expected NULLS marker.
When storing a value into a bucket head, if it is a NULLS marker,
store NULL instead.
And convert all places that used bit 1 for locking, to use bit 0.
Fixes:
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| kernel | ||
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| Kbuild | ||
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| README | ||
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