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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-12-03 16:25:40 +0000
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-12-06 01:22:31 +0000
commitcf66bb93e0f75e0a4ba1ec070692618fa028e994 (patch)
tree0ae48658adb29f50bdd85a94cbb84670a234f441 /arch/Kconfig
parent27d7c2a006a81c04fab00b8cd81b99af3b32738d (diff)
byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
Since GCC 4.4, there have been __builtin_bswap32() and __builtin_bswap16() intrinsics. A __builtin_bswap16() came a little later (4.6 for PowerPC, 48 for other platforms). By using these instead of the inline assembler that most architectures have in their __arch_swabXX() macros, we let the compiler see what's actually happening. The resulting code should be at least as good, and much *better* in the cases where it can be combined with a nearby load or store, using a load-and-byteswap or store-and-byteswap instruction (e.g. lwbrx/stwbrx on PowerPC, movbe on Atom). When GCC is sufficiently recent *and* the architecture opts in to using the intrinsics by setting CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP, they will be used in preference to the __arch_swabXX() macros. An architecture which does not set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will continue to use its own hand-crafted macros. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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@@ -112,6 +112,25 @@ 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