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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-10-20 10:41:44 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-10-20 10:41:44 -0700
commit9cec58dc138d6fcad9f447a19c8ff69f6540e667 (patch)
tree4fe1cca94fdba8b705c87615bee06d3346f687ce /include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
parent17e5ad6c0ce5a970e2830d0de8bdd60a2f077d38 (diff)
parentac9b9c667c2e1194e22ebe0a441ae1c37aaa9b90 (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-9cec58dc138d6fcad9f447a19c8ff69f6540e667.tar.gz
Update from upstream with manual merge of Yasunori Goto's
changes to swiotlb.c made in commit 281dd25cdc0d6903929b79183816d151ea626341 since this file has been moved from arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c to lib/swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
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@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
* linux/byteorder_generic.h
* Generic Byte-reordering support
*
+ * The "... p" macros, like le64_to_cpup, can be used with pointers
+ * to unaligned data, but there will be a performance penalty on
+ * some architectures. Use get_unaligned for unaligned data.
+ *
* Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> 19970707
* gathered all the good ideas from all asm-foo/byteorder.h into one file,
* cleaned them up.