[PATCH v7] arm: use built-in byte swap function

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 23 May 2013, Kim Phillips wrote:

> Enable the compiler intrinsic for byte swapping on arch ARM.  This
> allows the compiler to detect and be able to optimize out byte
> swappings, and has a very modest benefit on vmlinux size (Linaro gcc
> 4.8):
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 2840310	 123932	  61960	3026202	 2e2d1a	vmlinux-lart #orig
> 2840152	 123932	  61960	3026044	 2e2c7c	vmlinux-lart #builtin-bswap
> 
> 6473120	 314840	5616016	12403976 bd4508	vmlinux-mxs #orig
> 6472586	 314848	5616016	12403450 bd42fa	vmlinux-mxs #builtin-bswap
> 
> 7419872	 318372	 379556	8117800	 7bde28	vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #orig
> 7419170	 318364	 379556	8117090	 7bdb62	vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #builtin-bswap
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
> ---
> resending as v6 appears to have fallen though the cracks.  Russell?

Please send your patch to Russell's patch system:

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/


Nicolas