Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2018-08-29

Re: [PATCH] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__ is defined

From: Jerin Jacob <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-29 07:25:37

-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:01:07 -0500
From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <redacted>
To: bruce.richardson@intel.com
CC: dev@dpdk.org, gavin.hu@arm.com, rasland@mellanox.com,
 therbert@redhat.com, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__
 is defined
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GCC version 4.8.5 does not pre-define __ARM_NEON. NEON is not
optional for ArmV8. Hence NEON related code can be enabled
when __aarch64__ is defined.

Bugzilla ID: 82

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <redacted>
Reported-by: Raslan Darawsheh <redacted>
Reported-by: Thomas F Herbert <redacted>
Fixes:
Cc: stable
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Suggested-by:
Signed-off-by:

In general, Please follow the above order.

With above change:
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 config/arm/meson.build | 3 ++-
 mk/rte.cpuflags.mk     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config/arm/meson.build b/config/arm/meson.build
index 40dbc87f7..94cca490e 100644
--- a/config/arm/meson.build
+++ b/config/arm/meson.build
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ else
 endif
 message(machine_args)

-if cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != ''
+if (cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != '' or
+    cc.get_define('__aarch64__', args: machine_args) != '')
        dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_NEON', 1)
        compile_time_cpuflags += ['RTE_CPUFLAG_NEON']
 endif
diff --git a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
index 60713137d..43ed84155 100644
--- a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
+++ b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ CPUFLAGS += VSX
 endif

 # ARM flags
-ifneq ($(filter $(AUTO_CPUFLAGS),__ARM_NEON),)
+ifneq ($(filter __ARM_NEON __aarch64__,$(AUTO_CPUFLAGS)),)
 CPUFLAGS += NEON
 endif

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