include/arch/x86/swab.h badness?
Hi,
during compiling some byte-order related code for 32-bit x86 which uses glibc's #include <byteorder.h> i've noticed that __be*_to_cpu uses a generic i386 (ror+xchg) impl. quick investigation shows that #include <linux/asm/swab.h> sucks a little ;)
please look at the current linux implementation:
static __inline__ __u32 __arch_swab32(__u32 val)
{
#ifdef __i386__
# ifdef CONFIG_X86_BSWAP
__asm__("bswap %0" : "=r" (val) : "0" (val));
# else
__asm__("xchgb %b0,%h0\n\t" /* swap lower bytes */
"rorl $16,%0\n\t" /* swap words */
"xchgb %b0,%h0" /* swap higher bytes */
: "=q" (val)
: "0" (val));
# endif#else /* __i386__ */
__asm__("bswapl %0"
: "=r" (val)
: "0" (val));
#endif
return val;
}in the userspace, the __i386__ is always defined by gcc for any -march=i486/i586/... and the CONFIG_X86_BSWAP is never defined, so the userspace always ends with inlined assembly with generic i386 implementation :(
could you please improve this #ifdefs to get bswap opcodes for i486+ ? maybe the __builtin_bswap* should be used in recent kernel tree?
BR,
Paweł.