kernel/arch/tile/lib/string-endian.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

arch: remove tile port

2018-03-16T09:56:03Z

The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer uses the Tile architecture. There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future. Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first. Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

tile: optimize and clean up string functions

2013-08-01T20:23:12Z

This change cleans up the string code in a number of ways: - For memcpy(), fix bug in prefetch and increase distance to 3 lines; optimize for unaligned data; do all loads before wh64 to make memcpy safe for forward-overlapping calls; etc. Performance is improved. - Use new copy_byte() function on tilegx to spread a single byte value out into a full word using the shufflebytes instruction. - Clean up header include ordering to be more canonical, and remove spurious #undefs of function names. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

arch/tile: support building big-endian kernel

2012-05-25T16:48:22Z

The toolchain supports big-endian mode now, so add support for building the kernel to run big-endian as well. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf