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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-19 07:52:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-19 07:52:48 -0800
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Merge tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap
Pull preparatory gcc intrisics bswap patch from David Woodhouse: "This single patch is effectively a no-op for now. It enables architectures to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics for byteswapping, and if we merge this now then the architecture maintainers can enable it for their arch during the next cycle without dependency issues. It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory* the compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of course it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and PowerPC which have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that isn't always the case. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46453 for example." * tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap: byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
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@@ -113,6 +113,25 @@ config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
+config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
+ bool
+ help
+ Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
+ for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
+ inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
+ __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
+ happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
+ particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
+ with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
+ store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
+ should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
+ hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
+ does, the use of the builtins is optional.
+
+ Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
+ instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
+ on architectures that don't have such instructions.
+
config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
bool