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

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel,gmane.linux.ports.alpha,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.riscv,gmane.linux.ports.sparc,gmane.linux.uml.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi,gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs,gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch,gmane.linux.raid
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 09:47:16PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 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 ([email protected])
> >   * Copyright (C) 2006 David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> >   */
> >  
> > @@ -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.

I'll probably undo the split and just do the mechanical move for the
next version.  This was a bit too much change even if a split would be
my preferred outcome.
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