The byte order functions are visible to userspace. Unfortunately,
__arch_swab32() contains an assembly instruction which is invalid when
compiling for Thumb. This reverts to the C version when compiling for
Thumb.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Depending on your gcc version, the current C-only implementation would
produce suboptimal code, ranging from a bad register selection forcing
an additional mov instruction to a failure to merge the eor and the ror
in a single instruction. With a little help gcc always produces the
best code.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Andre McCurdy
Replaces generic swab32 routine with a more ARM friendly version.
Reduces kernel text size by approx 1200 bytes when compiled with
3.4.4 and approx 2400 bytes with 4.0.2
Probably some performance benefit as well.
Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@yahoo.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
H. Peter Anvin
Nicolas Pitre
Russell King
Andre McCurdy
Linus Torvalds