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
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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-5.0diff --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, -- Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt