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ARM: 8833/1: Ensure that NEON code always compiles with Clang 

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 <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Nathan Chancellor 2019-02-02 03:34:36 +01:00 committed by Russell King
parent 5388a5b821
commit de9c0d49d8
4 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions
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Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt
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@ -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.

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arch/arm/lib/Makefile
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $(obj)/csumpartialcopy.o: $(obj)/csumpartialcopygeneric.S
$(obj)/csumpartialcopyuser.o: $(obj)/csumpartialcopygeneric.S
ifeq ($(CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON),y)
NEON_FLAGS := -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon
NEON_FLAGS := -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon
CFLAGS_xor-neon.o += $(NEON_FLAGS)
obj-$(CONFIG_XOR_BLOCKS) += xor-neon.o
endif

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arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#ifndef __ARM_NEON__
#error You should compile this file with '-mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon'
#error You should compile this file with '-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon'
#endif
/*

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lib/raid6/Makefile
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON),y)
NEON_FLAGS := -ffreestanding
ifeq ($(ARCH),arm)
NEON_FLAGS += -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon
NEON_FLAGS += -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon
endif
CFLAGS_recov_neon_inner.o += $(NEON_FLAGS)
ifeq ($(ARCH),arm64)