powerpc: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP · fe3955cb29 - Gogs

powerpc: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP

By using the compiler intrinsics instead of hand-crafted opaque inline
assembler for byte-swapping, we let the compiler see what's actually
happening and it gets to use lwbrx/stwbrx instructions instead of a
normal load/store coupled with a sequence of rlwimi instructions to
move bits around.

Compiled-tested only. It gave a code size reduction of almost 4% for
ext2, and more like 2.5% for ext3/ext4.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

David Woodhouse 12 years ago

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				@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config PPC
			
				 	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
			
				 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
			
				 	select CLONE_BACKWARDS
			
				+	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
			
				 config EARLY_PRINTK
			
				 	bool