common implementation of iterative div/mod

We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used
when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor.
Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this
into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and
even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc.

The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent
gcc from performing the transformation.

This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it
to replace the open-coded versions I know about.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/math64.h b/include/linux/math64.h
index c1a5f81..177785e 100644
--- a/include/linux/math64.h
+++ b/include/linux/math64.h
@@ -81,4 +81,6 @@ static inline s64 div_s64(s64 dividend, s32 divisor)
 }
 #endif
 
+u32 iter_div_u64_rem(u64 dividend, u32 divisor, u64 *remainder);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_MATH64_H */