Re: [PATCH 16/25] sparc: move the XOR code to lib/raid/

[Eric Biggers]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 07:10:28AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/xor.S b/lib/raid/xor/sparc/xor-niagara.S
> similarity index 53%
> rename from arch/sparc/lib/xor.S
> rename to lib/raid/xor/sparc/xor-niagara.S
> index 35461e3b2a9b..f8749a212eb3 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/lib/xor.S
> +++ b/lib/raid/xor/sparc/xor-niagara.S
> @@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>  /*
> - * arch/sparc64/lib/xor.S
> - *
>   * High speed xor_block operation for RAID4/5 utilizing the
> - * UltraSparc Visual Instruction Set and Niagara store-init/twin-load.
> + * Niagara store-init/twin-load.
>   *
> - * Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Jakub Jelinek (jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>   * Copyright (C) 2006 David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   */
>  
> @@ -16,343 +13,6 @@
>  #include <asm/dcu.h>
>  #include <asm/spitfire.h>
>  

<linux/export.h> can be removed from the two assembly files, since all
the invocations of EXPORT_SYMBOL() in them were removed.

Also, xor-niagara.S ended up without a .text directive at the beginning.
Probably it was unnecessary anyway.  However, this seems unintentional,
given that xor-vis.S still has it.

- Eric