On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> Oh, and it strikes me when looking at the sparc rwsem-const.h that it
> has some unsigned constants in it. I think
>
>  #define RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS              0xffff0000
>
> is actually unsigned, because it's a hex constant that doesn't fit in
> a signed int. So it's of type 'unsigned int' if I recall the C type
> rules right.

Eeeek, this totally escaped me when I had a quick look at constant
signed-ness across architectures. This is definitely a problem.

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> #define RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS             (-0x00010000)

David, do you still see failures with v2.6.36-rc1 plus that one line fix ?

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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