asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fri, 7 May 2021 22:07:51 +0000 (00:07 +0200)
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 10 May 2021 15:50:47 +0000 (17:50 +0200)
commit0652035a57945e14e611dafae2ec5b46a05bc1d1
tree0c34544a7755bc1ee0a822e86458d3ed9215533f
parentf12d3ff3f41cc92f67cfaf29697685e8834fe4a4
asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers

In theory, compilers should be able to work this out themselves so we
can use a simpler version based on the swab() helpers.

I have verified that this works on all supported compiler versions
(gcc-4.9 and up, clang-10 and up). Looking at the object code produced by
gcc-11, I found that the impact is mostly a change in inlining decisions
that lead to slightly larger code.

In other cases, this version produces explicit byte swaps in place of
separate byte access, or comparing against pre-swapped constants.

While the source code is clearly simpler, I have not seen an indication
of the new version actually producing better code on Arm, so maybe
we want to skip this after all. From what I can tell, gcc recognizes
the byteswap pattern in the byteshift.h header and can turn it into
explicit instructions, but it does not turn a __builtin_bswap32() back
into individual bytes when that would result in better output, e.g.
when storing a byte-reversed constant.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
arch/arm/include/asm/unaligned.h
include/asm-generic/unaligned.h
include/linux/unaligned/be_byteshift.h [deleted file]
include/linux/unaligned/be_struct.h
include/linux/unaligned/le_byteshift.h [deleted file]
include/linux/unaligned/le_struct.h