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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:36:25 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1302200835380.6419@syhkavp.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361356696.13482.269.camel@i7.infradead.org>

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Woodhouse, David wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 22:17 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > +$(obj)/bswapsdi2.o: $(obj)/../../../../arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/bswapsdi2.o
> > > +     $(call cmd,shipped)
> > > +
> > 
> > I don't think you can get away with this.  The decompressor code is 
> > compiled with -fpic and the main kernel is not.  Most toolchains do mark 
> > object files with some flags to prevent the link of incompatible objects 
> > together (normally pic and non pic objects are not compatible even if in 
> > this very simple case that would not matter).  Maybe you are able to 
> > link zImage successfully simply because no references to __bswap* needed 
> > to be resolved and therefore the linker didn't need to search/include 
> > that object?
> 
> This, and the issue with -Os vs. -O2, make me inclined to suggest that
> we should just provide an asm version of these functions instead of
> using the compiler.

You'll have the same issue wrt the above whether or not the source file 
is C or assembly.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29  1:30 [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function Kim Phillips
2013-01-29  8:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 16:46   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 17:42     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 17:55       ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 18:10         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-30 10:22           ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-31  2:09             ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31  6:44               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31  9:28               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-31 20:59                 ` Kim Phillips
2013-01-31 21:33                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-31 22:11                   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-01  0:37                     ` [PATCH v4] " Kim Phillips
2013-02-01 10:46                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01  1:17                   ` [RFC] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01  7:33                     ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-06  3:04                       ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-06  9:02                         ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-07  1:19                           ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-07 10:19                             ` Will Newton
2013-02-07 10:43                               ` Catalin Marinas
2013-02-07 18:13                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-08 17:25                               ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 20:04                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-08 22:40                                   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-08 22:47                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-09  1:12                                       ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-09  3:16                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20  2:31                                           ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-20  2:38                                             ` Stephen Boyd
2013-02-20  3:17                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 10:38                                               ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 13:36                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2013-02-20 13:44                                                   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 14:06                                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-20 14:53                                                       ` Woodhouse, David
2013-02-20 15:43                                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21  3:49                                                           ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21  4:29                                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-21  6:52                                                               ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 16:40                                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-22  2:33                                                                   ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-22  3:40                                                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-23  1:40                                                                       ` [PATCH v6] " Kim Phillips
2013-02-23  2:40                                                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-23 23:20                                                                         ` Woodhouse, David
2013-05-23 16:46                                                                           ` [PATCH v7] " Kim Phillips
2013-05-23 20:09                                                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-23 23:13                                                                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-06 22:12                                                                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-06-06 22:23                                                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-07  0:03                                                                                 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-10-27  2:41                                                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-11-05 21:45                                                                               ` Kim Phillips
2013-02-21 16:37                                                               ` [RFC] " Woodhouse, David
2013-02-21 17:27                                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-03-13 13:35                                             ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 14:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 14:43   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-29 14:53 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-29 15:10   ` Woodhouse, David
2013-01-31 11:44 Woodhouse, David

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