This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: nandsim: don't open code a do_div helper
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mtd-nandsim-don-t-open-code-a-do_div-helper.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 596fd46268634082314b3af1ded4612e1b7f3f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:21:52 -0300
Subject: mtd: nandsim: don't open code a do_div helper
From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
commit 596fd46268634082314b3af1ded4612e1b7f3f03 upstream.
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
-#include <asm/div64.h>
+#include <linux/math64.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
@@ -547,12 +547,6 @@ static char *get_partition_name(int i)
return kstrdup(buf, GFP_KERNEL);
}
-static uint64_t divide(uint64_t n, uint32_t d)
-{
- do_div(n, d);
- return n;
-}
-
/*
* Initialize the nandsim structure.
*
@@ -581,7 +575,7 @@ static int init_nandsim(struct mtd_info
ns->geom.oobsz = mtd->oobsize;
ns->geom.secsz = mtd->erasesize;
ns->geom.pgszoob = ns->geom.pgsz + ns->geom.oobsz;
- ns->geom.pgnum = divide(ns->geom.totsz, ns->geom.pgsz);
+ ns->geom.pgnum = div_u64(ns->geom.totsz, ns->geom.pgsz);
ns->geom.totszoob = ns->geom.totsz + (uint64_t)ns->geom.pgnum *
ns->geom.oobsz;
ns->geom.secshift = ffs(ns->geom.secsz) - 1;
ns->geom.pgshift = chip->page_shift;
@@ -924,7 +918,7 @@ static int setup_wear_reporting(struct m
if (!rptwear)
return 0;
- wear_eb_count = divide(mtd->size, mtd->erasesize);
+ wear_eb_count = div_u64(mtd->size, mtd->erasesize);
mem = wear_eb_count * sizeof(unsigned long);
if (mem / sizeof(unsigned long) != wear_eb_count) {
NS_ERR("Too many erase blocks for wear reporting\n");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.0/mtd-nandsim-don-t-open-code-a-do_div-helper.patch
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