byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:25:40 +0000 (16:25 +0000)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 01:22:31 +0000 (01:22 +0000)
commitcf66bb93e0f75e0a4ba1ec070692618fa028e994
tree0ae48658adb29f50bdd85a94cbb84670a234f441
parent27d7c2a006a81c04fab00b8cd81b99af3b32738d
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 <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
arch/Kconfig
include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
include/linux/compiler-intel.h
include/uapi/linux/swab.h