From cf66bb93e0f75e0a4ba1ec070692618fa028e994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Woodhouse Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:25:40 +0000 Subject: byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping Since GCC 4.4, there have been __builtin_bswap32() and __builtin_bswap16() intrinsics. A __builtin_bswap16() came a little later (4.6 for PowerPC, 48 for other platforms). By using these instead of the inline assembler that most architectures have in their __arch_swabXX() macros, we let the compiler see what's actually happening. The resulting code should be at least as good, and much *better* in the cases where it can be combined with a nearby load or store, using a load-and-byteswap or store-and-byteswap instruction (e.g. lwbrx/stwbrx on PowerPC, movbe on Atom). When GCC is sufficiently recent *and* the architecture opts in to using the intrinsics by setting CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP, they will be used in preference to the __arch_swabXX() macros. An architecture which does not set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will continue to use its own hand-crafted macros. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin --- include/linux/compiler-intel.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/compiler-intel.h') diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-intel.h b/include/linux/compiler-intel.h index d8e636e5607d..973ce10c40b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-intel.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-intel.h @@ -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 + -- cgit v1.2.3