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

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

From: Dan Streetman <hidden>
Date: 2015-05-14 08:54:33
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Dan Streetman [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Building the 842 code on 32-bit ARM currently results in this link
error:

ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [lib/842/842_decompress.ko] undefined!
Oops!  Guess I should build/test on 32 bit more.
quoted
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.
wait, do you mean the 64 bit mod, total % fsize?  That should already
be fixed in Herbert's tree, I changed it to subtraction instead.

In any case, I looked at the code again and I think the fsize
parameter can be removed, and just simply calculated in the function,
it's just a shift.  I'll send a patch.

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
quoted
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.
alternately, we know that fsize will always be less than 64 bits,
at most it's 4<<9 or 8<<8 (both == 1<<11).  So we could just change
its type to u16.
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 int __do_index(struct sw842_param *p, u8 size, u8 bits, u16 fsize)
 {
        u64 index, offset, total = round_down(p->out - p->ostart, 8);
        int ret;
Or, we could inline it and change the type to u16.  In any case,

Acked-by: Dan Streetman <redacted>
quoted
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)
 {
      u64 index, offset, total = round_down(p->out - p->ostart, 8);
      int ret;
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