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Commit 71a0a724 authored by Yousong Zhou's avatar Yousong Zhou Committed by Ralf Baechle
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MIPS: UAPI: Ignore __arch_swab{16,32,64} when using MIPS16

Some GCC versions (e.g. 4.8.3) can incorrectly inline a function with
MIPS32 instructions into another function with MIPS16 code [1], causing
the assembler to genereate incorrect binary code or fail right away
complaining about unrecognized opcode.

In the case of __arch_swab{16,32}, when inlined by the compiler with
flags `-mips32r2 -mips16 -Os', the assembler can fail with the following
error.

    {standard input}:79: Error: unrecognized opcode `wsbh $2,$2'

For performance concerns and to workaround the issue already existing in
older compilers, just ignore these 2 functions when compiling with
mips16 enabled.

 [1] Inlining nomips16 function into mips16 function can result in
     undefined builtins, https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55777



Signed-off-by: default avatarYousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11241/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
parent 1bb3bf62
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