On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:17:23PM +0200, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> Drop
warning because kernel now requires GCC >= v4.9 after commit
6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9") and
clarify that -ftree-vectorize now always needs enabling for GCC
by directly testing the presence of CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC. Another
reason to remove the warning is that Clang exposes itself as
GCC < 4.6 so it triggers the warning about GCC which doesn't
make much sense and misleads Clang users by telling them to
update GCC. Because Clang is now supported by the kernel
print a clear Clang-specific warning. Link:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/496 Link:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/503
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ra...@collabora.com>
The commit message looks like it is written by me but I never
added a Clang specific warning. I appreciate wanting to give me
credit but when you change things about my original commit
message, please make it clear that you did the edits, something
like:
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
[adrian: Add clang specific warning] Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu
<adrian.ra...@collabora.com>
Thanks for the suggestion. Makes sense. I contemplated adding
another patch by me on top but thought it was too much
churn. Sorry if my edits were unclear.
---
arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file
changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
index b99dd8e1c93f..f9f3601cc2d1 100644 ---
a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c +++ b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c @@
-14,20 +14,22 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#error You should compile this file with '-march=armv7-a
-mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon' #endif
+/* + * TODO: Even though -ftree-vectorize is enabled by
default in Clang, the + * compiler does not produce vectorized
code due to its cost model. + * See:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/503 + */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG +#warning Clang does not vectorize
code in this file. +#endif
I really do not like this. With the GCC specific warning, the
user could just upgrade their GCC. With this warning, it is
basically telling them don't use clang, in which case, it would
just be better to disable this code altogether. I would rather
see:
1. Just don't build this file with clang altogether, which I
believe was
v1's 2/2 patch.
OR
2. Use the pragma:
#pragma clang loop vectorize(enable)
as Nick suggests in v1's 2/2 patch.
Alternatively, __restrict__ sounds like it might be beneficial
for both GCC and clang:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201112215033.ga438...@rani.riverdale.lan/
Option 1 from v1 got clearly NACKed by Nick a while back so the
only option gonig forward is to also fix clang vectorization
together with these changes so the warning becomes unnecessary.
/*
* Pull in the reference implementations while instructing GCC (through
* -ftree-vectorize) to attempt to exploit implicit parallelism and emit
* NEON instructions.
*/
-#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
#pragma GCC optimize "tree-vectorize"
-#else
-/*
- * While older versions of GCC do not generate incorrect code, they fail to
- * recognize the parallel nature of these functions, and emit plain ARM code,
- * which is known to be slower than the optimized ARM code in asm-arm/xor.h.
- */
-#warning This code requires at least version 4.6 of GCC
#endif
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-variable"
--
2.30.0
- Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: remove unnecessary... Adrian Ratiu
-
