Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add lz4 compressor module

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:29:05 -0700

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:24:21 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chanho Min <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>> +#define HTYPE const u8*
> >>> +
> >>> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
> >>> +#define LZ4_NBCOMMONBYTES(val) (__builtin_clz(val) >> 3)
> >>> +#else
> >>> +#define LZ4_NBCOMMONBYTES(val) (__builtin_ctz(val) >> 3)
> >>> +#endif
> >>
> >>It seems at least m68k and sparc don't have the __builtin_clz() functions:
> >>
> >>m68k-allmodconfig (http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8572593/):
> >>
> >>ERROR: "__clzsi2" [lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.ko] undefined!
> >>ERROR: "__clzsi2" [lib/lz4/lz4_compress.ko] undefined!
> >
> > gcc seems to define __builtin_clz as __clzsi2 in some architecture.
> > But, kernel doesn't link libgcc.a.
> > If kernel should use gcc's built-in function without libgcc.a,
> > do we need to port __clzsi2 to 'arch/*/lib/*'?
> 
> That's another option.

Without having seen the patch ....  Yes, if we fix it this way then we
also fix it for future callers of __builtin_clz().