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>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 4bdb300..6055d61 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
if (!tcount)
return 0;
}
- mask = ~(~0ul << tcount*8);
+ mask = bytemask_from_count(tcount);
return unlikely(!!((a ^ b) & mask));
}
