linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/hash: swap arguments passed to crc32

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Message-Id: <530F09B6020000780011FBEB@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:47:34 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	<mingo@...e.hu>, <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>, <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <dborkman@...hat.com>, <ffusco@...hat.com>,
	<tgraf@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/hash: swap arguments passed to crc32_u32()

... to match the function's parameters. While reportedly commutative,
using the proper order allows for leveraging the instruction permitting
the source operand to be in memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
v2: now swapping arguments rather than parameters, as requested by hpa
---
 arch/x86/lib/hash.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- 3.14-rc4-x86-hash-crc32.orig/arch/x86/lib/hash.c
+++ 3.14-rc4-x86-hash-crc32/arch/x86/lib/hash.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static u32 intel_crc4_2_hash(const void 
 	u32 i, tmp = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < len / 4; i++)
-		seed = crc32_u32(*p32++, seed);
+		seed = crc32_u32(seed, *p32++);
 
 	switch (3 - (len & 0x03)) {
 	case 0:
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static u32 intel_crc4_2_hash(const void 
 		/* fallthrough */
 	case 2:
 		tmp |= *((const u8 *) p32);
-		seed = crc32_u32(tmp, seed);
+		seed = crc32_u32(seed, tmp);
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static u32 intel_crc4_2_hash2(const u32 
 	u32 i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
-		seed = crc32_u32(*p32++, seed);
+		seed = crc32_u32(seed, *p32++);
 
 	return seed;
 }



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