Re: [patch V4 09/31] bitops: Add x86-specific parity functions

[Peter Zijlstra]

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 stuffï
> 
> 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 :/