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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 366ec06a5185..c31416b10586 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -112,6 +112,25 @@ config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
           See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
           information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
 
+config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
+       bool
+       help
+         Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
+         for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
+         inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
+         __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
+         happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
+         particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
+         with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
+         store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
+         should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
+         hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it
+         does, the use of the builtins is optional.
+
+         Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
+         instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
+         on architectures that don't have such instructions.
+
 config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
         bool