Some nice improvements were made to rwsem in commit:
 424acaaeb3a3932d64a9b4bd59df6cf72c22d8f3
 rwsem: wake queued readers when writer blocks on active read lock
but this change overlooked that ia64 had defined RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS
as an unsigned value, while the new code required a signed value (as
it is in every other architecture).
This fix suggested by the original patch author: Michel Lespinasse.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
 
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 #define RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE           __IA64_UL_CONST(0x0000000000000000)
-#define RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS              __IA64_UL_CONST(0x0000000000000001)
-#define RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK              __IA64_UL_CONST(0x00000000ffffffff)
-#define RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS             -__IA64_UL_CONST(0x0000000100000000)
+#define RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS              (1L)
+#define RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK              (0xffffffffL)
+#define RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS             (-0x100000000L)
 #define RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS         RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS
 #define RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS                (RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS + RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS)