Re: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jan 31 2013 - 01:44:46 EST


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:09:00PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 40e2b12..c8798b9 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -141,6 +141,16 @@ config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
> on architectures that don't have such instructions.
>
> +config ARCH_DEFINES_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> + depends on ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> + bool
> + help
> + ARCH selects this when it wants to control HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAPxx

This is what threw me off: if ARCH selects this, I don't think we want
to have a help text and the option be user visible? Normally such
options are only bool and are selected automatically by hm.. ARCH, as
you say above and do so below. :-)

> + definitions over those in the generic compiler headers. It
> + can be dependent on a combination of byte swapping instruction
> + availability, the instruction set version, and the state
> + of support in different compiler versions.
> +
> config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
> bool
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 73027aa..b5868c2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ config ARM
> select CLONE_BACKWARDS
> select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
> select OLD_SIGACTION
> + select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> + select ARCH_DEFINES_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> help

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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