Re: [PATCH] Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-09-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 29.09.2009, at 02:08, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:38 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: We currently use host endian long types to store information in the dirty bitmap. This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the u32 after the first contains the next 32

Re: [PATCH] Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-09-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:38 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > We currently use host endian long types to store information > in the dirty bitmap. > > This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the > u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this > breaks completel

Re: linux-next: tree build failure

2009-09-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:21 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc44x_defconfig) failed like this: > > In file included from arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c:31: > arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.h: In function 'kvmppc_account_exit_stat': > arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.h:51