[PATCH 2/2] MIPS: enable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
Thomas Bogendoerfer
tsbogend at alpha.franken.de
Mon Mar 1 14:49:08 GMT 2021
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:57:00AM -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> From: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin at pm.me>
>
> MIPS doesn't have architecture-optimized bitsearching functions,
> like find_{first,next}_bit() etc.
> It's absolutely harmless to enable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT as this
> functionality is not new at all and well-tested. It provides more
> optimized code and saves some .text memory (32 R2):
>
> add/remove: 4/1 grow/shrink: 1/53 up/down: 216/-372 (-156)
>
> Users of for_each_set_bit() like hotpath gic_handle_shared_int()
> will also benefit from this.
>
> Suggested-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin at pm.me>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov at gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
applied to mips-next.
Thomas.
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