From 1de344caee73ec863de5e9ead6665aea83857def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Chancellor Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 03:34:36 +0100 Subject: ARM: 8833/1: Ensure that NEON code always compiles with Clang [ Upstream commit de9c0d49d85dc563549972edc5589d195cd5e859 ] While building arm32 allyesconfig, I ran into the following errors: arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c:17:2: error: You should compile this file with '-mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon' In file included from lib/raid6/neon1.c:27: /home/nathan/cbl/prebuilt/lib/clang/8.0.0/include/arm_neon.h:28:2: error: "NEON support not enabled" Building V=1 showed NEON_FLAGS getting passed along to Clang but __ARM_NEON__ was not getting defined. Ultimately, it boils down to Clang only defining __ARM_NEON__ when targeting armv7, rather than armv6k, which is the '-march' value for allyesconfig. >From lib/Basic/Targets/ARM.cpp in the Clang source: // This only gets set when Neon instructions are actually available, unlike // the VFP define, hence the soft float and arch check. This is subtly // different from gcc, we follow the intent which was that it should be set // when Neon instructions are actually available. if ((FPU & NeonFPU) && !SoftFloat && ArchVersion >= 7) { Builder.defineMacro("__ARM_NEON", "1"); Builder.defineMacro("__ARM_NEON__"); // current AArch32 NEON implementations do not support double-precision // floating-point even when it is present in VFP. Builder.defineMacro("__ARM_NEON_FP", "0x" + Twine::utohexstr(HW_FP & ~HW_FP_DP)); } Ard Biesheuvel recommended explicitly adding '-march=armv7-a' at the beginning of the NEON_FLAGS definitions so that __ARM_NEON__ always gets definined by Clang. This doesn't functionally change anything because that code will only run where NEON is supported, which is implicitly armv7. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/287 Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt b/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt index 525452726d31..b9e060c5b61e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TL;DR summary * Use only NEON instructions, or VFP instructions that don't rely on support code * Isolate your NEON code in a separate compilation unit, and compile it with - '-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp' + '-march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp' * Put kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end() calls around the calls into your NEON code * Don't sleep in your NEON code, and be aware that it will be executed with @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ instructions appearing in unexpected places if no special care is taken. Therefore, the recommended and only supported way of using NEON/VFP in the kernel is by adhering to the following rules: * isolate the NEON code in a separate compilation unit and compile it with - '-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp'; + '-march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp'; * issue the calls to kernel_neon_begin(), kernel_neon_end() as well as the calls into the unit containing the NEON code from a compilation unit which is *not* built with the GCC flag '-mfpu=neon' set. -- cgit v1.2.3