[PATCH 1/3] [ARM] Translate delay.S into (mostly) C

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 11:30 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Is there some way to force GCC to do what I want (interleave the
> > functions)? It seems happy to inline them and then optimize the
> > register
> > usage and instruction ordering. Perhaps that is OK though and we're
> > wasting our time trying to be conservative in code size. 

You could use the noinline qualifier from <linux/compiler.h> with those 
functions you don't want inlined.

> Is it possible to do all this in assembly ? Can't you have the default
> implementation using this assembly with different function names, then
> just set the assembly function names in C code someplace?

That weould be my preference too.  Being in assembly means that this 
code is unlikely to change with different optimization levels and/or gcc 
versions which would otherwise require different calibration values. 
Relying on stable calibration is necessary for the lpj kernel cmdline 
parameter to have some meaning.


Nicolas