On May 16, 2016 10:06:08 AM PDT, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
>On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:49:05PM +0800, Zhaoxiu Zeng wrote:
>> On 2016/5/11 17:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> > Please use the GEN_*_RMWcc() stuff to avoid the setpo where
>possible.
>>
>> Setpo is better.
>> In most cases, we need to store the parity, or compare it with other
>variables.
>>
>> For example, in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c,
>>
>> static int tg3_test_nvram(struct tg3 *tp)
>> {
>> ......
>> if (parity8(data[i]) == !!parity[i])
>> goto out;
>> ......
>> }
>>
>> If use GEN_BINARY_RMWcc stuff，
>>
>> static inline unsigned int __arch_parity8(unsigned int w)
>> {
>> GEN_BINARY_RMWcc("testb", w, "er", 0xff, "%0", "po");
>> }
>
>blergh; GCC does indeed make a mess of that. It looks we'll need the
>cc-output stuff for this in order for GCC to generates sane code for
>that :/
For what it's worth, I have a patchset for cc out just about ready to post. It
is in gcc 6.1.
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