Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 4 authors, 2015-05-14

Re: [PATCH] lib: fix 842 build on 32-bit architectures

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2015-05-14 03:07:04
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:56:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Building the 842 code on 32-bit ARM currently results in this link
error:

ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [lib/842/842_decompress.ko] undefined!

The reason is that the __do_index function performs a 64-bit
division by a power-of-two number, but it has no insight into
the function arguments.

By marking that function inline, the fsize argument is always
known at the time that do_index is called, and the compiler is
able to replace the extremely expensive 64-bit division with
a cheap constant shift operation.

Aside from fixing that link error, this approach should also improve
both code size and performance on 32-bit architectures significantly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
Found while building arm32 allmodconfig with gcc-5.0
diff --git a/lib/842/842_decompress.c b/lib/842/842_decompress.c
index 6b2b45aecde3..285bf6b6959c 100644
--- a/lib/842/842_decompress.c
+++ b/lib/842/842_decompress.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static int do_data(struct sw842_param *p, u8 n)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __do_index(struct sw842_param *p, u8 size, u8 bits, u64 fsize)
+static inline int __do_index(struct sw842_param *p, u8 size, u8 bits, u64 fsize)
Ugh, relying on inlining to work is fragile.  I'm not against
making this inline but please make it work even when it is out-
of-line.

Thanks,
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