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Commit a61a41a0 authored by Dave Martin's avatar Dave Martin Committed by Russell King
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ARM: 7510/1: opcodes: Add helpers for emitting custom opcodes



This patch adds some __inst_() macros for injecting custom opcodes
in assembler (both inline and in .S files).  They should make it
easier and cleaner to get things right in little-/big-
endian/ARM/Thumb-2 kernels without a lot of #ifdefs.

This pure-preprocessor approach is preferred over the alternative
method of wedging extra assembler directives into the assembler
input using top-level asm() blocks, since there is no way to
guarantee that the compiler won't reorder those with respect to
each other or with respect to non-toplevel asm() blocks, unless
-fno-toplevel-reorder is passed (which is in itself somewhat
undesirable because it defeats some potential optimisations).

Currently <asm/unified.h> _does_ silently rely on the compiler not
reordering at the top level, but it seems better to avoid adding
extra code which depends on this if the same result can be achieved
in another way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 0ce3de23
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