ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function
authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Wed, 6 Nov 2013 04:15:24 +0000 (05:15 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:32:45 +0000 (12:32 +0000)
commit017f161a55b48807a73fc9dff0b69f081bf43ee3
tree1c440562e87f4c394d483935486019cc9854ffe8
parent03aa6580e336c19e923372a3b6b72a300f24880c
ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function

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 <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c
arch/arm/lib/Makefile
arch/arm/lib/bswapsdi2.S [new file with mode: 0644]