This single patch is effectively a no-op for now. It enables architectures

to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics for byteswapping,
 and if we merge this now then the architecture maintainers can enable it
 for their arch during the next cycle without dependency issues.
 
 It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory* the
 compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of course
 it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and PowerPC which
 have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that isn't always the
 case. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46453 for example.
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Merge tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap

Pull preparatory gcc intrisics bswap patch from David Woodhouse:
 "This single patch is effectively a no-op for now.  It enables
  architectures to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics
  for byteswapping, and if we merge this now then the architecture
  maintainers can enable it for their arch during the next cycle without
  dependency issues.

  It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory*
  the compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of
  course it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and
  PowerPC which have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that
  isn't always the case.  See

     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46453

  for example."

* tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap:
  byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
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Linus Torvalds 2012-12-19 07:52:48 -08:00
commit 7f2de8171d
4 changed files with 45 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -63,3 +63,13 @@
#define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
#define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
#endif
#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 8 || (defined(__powerpc__) && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
#endif
#endif

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@ -29,3 +29,10 @@
#endif
#define uninitialized_var(x) x
#ifndef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
/* icc has this, but it's called _bswap16 */
#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
#define __builtin_bswap16 _bswap16
#endif