• Arnd Bergmann's avatar
    asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers · 0652035a
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    In theory, compilers should be able to work this out themselves so we
    can use a simpler version based on the swab() helpers.
    
    I have verified that this works on all supported compiler versions
    (gcc-4.9 and up, clang-10 and up). Looking at the object code produced by
    gcc-11, I found that the impact is mostly a change in inlining decisions
    that lead to slightly larger code.
    
    In other cases, this version produces explicit byte swaps in place of
    separate byte access, or comparing against pre-swapped constants.
    
    While the source code is clearly simpler, I have not seen an indication
    of the new version actually producing better code on Arm, so maybe
    we want to skip this after all. From what I can tell, gcc recognizes
    the byteswap pattern in the byteshift.h header and can turn it into
    explicit instructions, but it does not turn a __builtin_bswap32() back
    into individual bytes when that would result in better output, e.g.
    when storing a byte-reversed constant.
    Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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