kernel_optimize_test/drivers/mtd/nand
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 596fd46268 mtd: nandsim: don't open code a do_div helper
We don't need to open code the divide function, just use div_u64 that
already exists and do the same job. While this is a straightforward
clean up, there is more to that, the real motivation for this.

While building on a cross compiling environment in armel, using gcc
4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5), I was getting the following build
error:

ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.ko] undefined!

After investigating with objdump and hand built assembly version
generated with the compiler, I narrowed __aeabi_uldivmod as being
generated from the divide function. When nandsim.c is built with
-fno-inline-functions-called-once, that happens when
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is enabled, the do_div optimization in
arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h doesn't work as expected with the open
coded divide function: even if the do_div we are using doesn't have a
constant divisor, the compiler still includes the else parts of the
optimized do_div macro, and translates the divisions there to use
__aeabi_uldivmod, instead of only calling __do_div_asm -> __do_div64 and
optimizing/removing everything else out.

So to reproduce, gcc 4.6 plus CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y and
CONFIG_MTD_NAND_NANDSIM=m should do it, building on armel.

After this change, the compiler does the intended thing even with
-fno-inline-functions-called-once, and optimizes out as expected the
constant handling in the optimized do_div on arm. As this also avoids a
build issue, I'm marking for Stable, as I think is applicable for this
case.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-07-06 16:59:33 +01:00
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atmel_nand_ecc.h
atmel_nand.c
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autcpu12.c
bcm_umi_bch.c
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denali.c
denali.h
diskonchip.c
docg4.c
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fsl_ifc_nand.c
fsl_upm.c
fsmc_nand.c
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Kconfig
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nand_base.c
nand_bbt.c
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nomadik_nand.c
nuc900_nand.c
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pasemi_nand.c
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ppchameleonevb.c
pxa3xx_nand.c
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sm_common.c
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