Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/06/2014 02:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:35:42 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Vdso cleanups and improvements largely from Andy Lutomirski.
> 
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h: In function 'go64':
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'le64toh'
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'le32toh'
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'le16toh'
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h:119: warning: implicit declaration of function 'htole16'
> 
> My Fedora Core 6 (lol gotcha) test box doesn't have these.
> 
> http://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/3/le64toh/ has some details.  I
> don't appear to have letoh64 and friends either.  
> 

OK... so now we have a tools baseline problem.  It isn't that we
couldn't open-code these functions, but of course we'd also like to not
*have* to do so... but also we don't want to have the kernel build rely
on autoconf ;)

So we have a few options, here:

1. We could use the unaligned macros defined in
   tools/include/tools/*_byteshift.h.

2. Open-code it.

3. Define a baseline which includes these kinds of functions.

I guess I would be leaning toward #1, but would also wonder if that also
means we should add -I$(srctree)/tools/include to the global settings
... we are *already* adding it to HOSTCFLAGS_sortextable.o.

Thoughs?

	-hpa