On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:51:04AM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 06:50:53AM +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote:
>
> > > The probe routines in cpu-probe.c should get at least some of that
> > > correct.
> > > How about just overriding the things that cpu-probe.c doesn't get right?
> >
> > CPU detection gets them all right, it's just that somehow GCC does not use
> > the information correctly; i.e. in the __fls() case it blindly falls back
> > on the C version instead of using the asm macro with clz in it. I scanned
> > a few callsites of __fls() and there's not 'clz' to be found anywhere. With
> > this addition the clz is used and the binary is a _lot_ smaller.
> >
>
> You should define all values as constants, as far as known. GCC will
> then be able to use constant propagation and dead code elemination to
> optimize the code for a particular target system.
>
> The way fls() is written it will only use of CLZ if the expression
> cpu_has_mips_r is a constant, that is if the kernel is being built
> exclusivly for MIPS32 / MIPS64 revision 1 or higher. The reason that
Ah, so the __builtin_constat_p() is a compiletime check as to whether a
given symbol is a constant or needs to be evaluated at runtime? That
explains a lot.
Thanks,
Manuel Lauss
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