On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Does your objection still apply if we supplied our own implementations of a
> handful of libgcc helpers?
We already do that.
Several architectures actually implement _udivdi3.
However, do_div() is actually the much simpler/better interface.
I don't think we have a single case in the kernel where we really want
the full 64/64 division, and the 64/32->64 case really is
fundamentally simpler.
This whole "do_div is so complicated" thing is just BS.
The thing that triggered Christoph to ask was a bug in the
implementation of that *simpler* interface. What makes you think that
making people implement _udivdi3 would magically avoid all such bugs?
Linus
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