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Commit 017f161a authored by Kim Phillips's avatar Kim Phillips Committed by Russell King
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ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function



Enable the compiler intrinsic for byte swapping on arch ARM. This
allows the compiler to detect and be able to optimize out byte
swappings, and has a very modest benefit on vmlinux size (Linaro gcc
4.8):

text data bss dec hex filename
2840310 123932 61960 3026202 2e2d1a vmlinux-lart #orig
2840152 123932 61960 3026044 2e2c7c vmlinux-lart #builtin-bswap

6473120 314840 5616016 12403976 bd4508 vmlinux-mxs #orig
6472586 314848 5616016 12403450 bd42fa vmlinux-mxs #builtin-bswap

7419872 318372 379556 8117800 7bde28 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #orig
7419170 318364 379556 8117090 7bdb62 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #builtin-bswap

Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 03aa6580
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