On Fri, May 3, 2024, at 16:49, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 22. Apr 2024, at 17:55, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can generally merge such a series with architecture specific
>>> changes through the asm-generic tree, with the appropriate Acks
>>> from the maintainers.
>
> What would it take for this patch (with only generic type changes) to be
> applied?
>
> I did some further investigations and disassembled my test kernel images.
> The patch reduced the number of ARM instructions by 872 with GCC 13 and by
> 2,354 with GCC 14. Other architectures that rely on the generic bitops
> functions will most likely also benefit from this patch.
>
> Tests were done with base commit 9d1ddab261f3e2af7c384dc02238784ce0cf9f98.
Sorry for failing to follow up earlier, I think this is ok, thanks
for your thorough work on this. I've applied it to the asm-generic
tree now.
Arnd
