[RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

[Woodhouse, David]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:13 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> So, this compiler (4.5.4) has support for 32-bit and 64-bit bswaps
> across all our architectures, but not the 16-bit ones.

That observation is consistent with my dig through GCC history. I had
come to the conclusion that the 32-bit and 64-bit versions were added
*generically* in 4.4, and that the 16-bit version was added in 4.6 to
that PowerPC back end, and made generic in 4.8. So I *had* put that
arch-specific check into compiler-gcc4.h, for PowerPC. It's just outside
the context of Kim's patch. If it really does end up being different for
every arch, I may reconsider that.

As for the __bswapsi2() calls... if it's ever emitting an out-of-line
call for something like that, that seems like a really dubious decision;
surely it's better being inlined? So rather than adding it to your
bits-of-libgcc.a in the kernel, I'd suggest just *not* using
ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP for the offending compilers, and filing a bug to
get them fixed.

But really, this is why I created ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP and left it to
architecture maintainers to enable it at their leisure.... :)

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation



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