[PATCH v3 0/2] Implement endianess swap macros for RISC-V

Ignacio Encinas
2025-04-03T20:34:42Z

Motivated by [1]. A couple of things to note:

RISC-V needs a default implementation to fall back on. There is one
available in include/uapi/linux/swab.h but that header can't be included
from arch/riscv/include/asm/swab.h. Therefore, the first patch in this
series moves the default implementation into asm-generic.

Tested with crc_kunit as pointed out here [2]. I can't provide
performance numbers as I don't have RISC-V hardware yet.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250302220426.GC2079@quark.localdomain/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250216225530.306980-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Ignacio Encinas <ignacio@iencinas.com>
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Changes in v3:

PATCH 2:
Use if(riscv_has_extension_likely) instead of asm goto (Eric). It
looks like both versions generate the same assembly. Perhaps we should
do the same change in other places such as arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h

- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319-riscv-swab-v2-0-d53b6d6ab915@iencinas.com

Arnd, I tried your suggestion but couldn't make it work. Let me know if
I missed something in my response.

Changes in v2:
- Introduce first patch factoring out the default implementation into
asm-generic
- Remove blank line to make checkpatch happy
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310-riscv-swab-v1-1-34652ef1ee96@iencinas.com

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Ignacio Encinas (2):
include/uapi/linux/swab.h: move default implementation for swab macros into asm-generic
riscv: introduce asm/swab.h

arch/riscv/include/asm/swab.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/uapi/asm-generic/swab.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/swab.h | 33 +------------------------------
3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
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base-commit: a7f2e10ecd8f18b83951b0bab47ddaf48f93bf47
change-id: 20250307-riscv-swab-b81b94a9ac1b

Best regards,
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Ignacio Encinas <ignacio@iencinas.com>