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 <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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt b/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt
index 525452726d31e94c43d7c8c7c05c4431b006912a..b9e060c5b61e08c1491c710adc560530b8bae03e 100644 (file)
--- 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.

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
index 4cb0b9624d8ff6bd017a25c28475e33c94cd7231..4cf026f3f00d47580593e82c84ccfc10f7e3585f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
@@ -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

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
index 2c40aeab3eaae8cb038a283b6fa2dc422d744d08..c691b901092f55a8f251c186a6938ba19d79f6ec 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
@@ -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
 
 /*

diff --git a/lib/raid6/Makefile b/lib/raid6/Makefile
index ad523be0313ba4f38a8bbd6fe0ebb91c394fd52e..e0f3b38d6dcbd8c65bb7d1dbac431936b8d429de 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/raid6/Makefile
+++ b/lib/raid6/Makefile
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ 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)