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From: dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Add optimised swahb32() byteswap helper for v6 and above
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:42:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322059345-18842-1-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org> (raw)

ARMv6 and later processors have the REV16 instruction, which swaps
the bytes within each halfword of a register value.

This is already used to implement swab16(), but since the native
operation performaed by REV16 is actually swahb32(), this patch
renames the existing swab16() helper accordingly and defines
__arch_swab16() in terms of it.  This allows calls to both swab16()
and swahb32() to be optimised.

The compiler's generated code might improve someday, but as of
4.5.2 the code generated for pure C implementing these 16-bit
bytesswaps remains pessimal.

swahb32() is useful for converting 32-bit Thumb instructions
between integer and memory representation on BE8 platforms (among
other uses).

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/swab.h |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/swab.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/swab.h
index 9997ad2..32ee164 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/swab.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/swab.h
@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@
 
 #if defined(__KERNEL__) && __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
 
-static inline __attribute_const__ __u16 __arch_swab16(__u16 x)
+static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __arch_swahb32(__u32 x)
 {
 	__asm__ ("rev16 %0, %1" : "=r" (x) : "r" (x));
 	return x;
 }
-#define __arch_swab16 __arch_swab16
+#define __arch_swahb32 __arch_swahb32
+#define __arch_swab16(x) ((__u16)__arch_swahb32(x))
 
 static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __arch_swab32(__u32 x)
 {
-- 
1.7.4.1

             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23 14:42 Dave Martin [this message]
2011-11-23 16:09 ` [PATCH] ARM: Add optimised swahb32() byteswap helper for v6 and above Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-25 10:12   ` Dave Martin

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