From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:09:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [PATCH v7] arm: use built-in byte swap function In-Reply-To: <20130523114654.1f273241725205c6703b2226@freescale.com> References: <20130129181046.GC25415@pd.tnic> <20130219203115.114eab79e8d2099c6306d921@freescale.com> <1361356696.13482.269.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1361367842.13482.279.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1361372008.13482.280.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20130220214943.9b28a5b208da9f081387c55e@freescale.com> <20130221005221.15279b1372501af12c1e4f32@freescale.com> <20130221203327.6558f89277468f7ffffa6506@freescale.com> <20130222194032.f7b44aefa5e2723d16767a1b@freescale.com> <1361661654.18110.102.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20130523114654.1f273241725205c6703b2226@freescale.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 23 May 2013, Kim Phillips wrote: > Enable the compiler intrinsic for byte swapping on arch ARM. This > allows the compiler to detect and be able to optimize out byte > swappings, and has a very modest benefit on vmlinux size (Linaro gcc > 4.8): > > text data bss dec hex filename > 2840310 123932 61960 3026202 2e2d1a vmlinux-lart #orig > 2840152 123932 61960 3026044 2e2c7c vmlinux-lart #builtin-bswap > > 6473120 314840 5616016 12403976 bd4508 vmlinux-mxs #orig > 6472586 314848 5616016 12403450 bd42fa vmlinux-mxs #builtin-bswap > > 7419872 318372 379556 8117800 7bde28 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #orig > 7419170 318364 379556 8117090 7bdb62 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #builtin-bswap > > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips > Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre > Acked-by: David Woodhouse > --- > resending as v6 appears to have fallen though the cracks. Russell? Please send your patch to Russell's patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ Nicolas