[PATCH v4 1/1] arm64/neon: add workaround for ambiguous C99 stdint.h types
From: Jackie Liu <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-27 12:38:26
Also in:
linux-block
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
In a way similar to ARM commit 09096f6a0ee2 ("ARM: 7822/1: add workaround
for ambiguous C99 stdint.h types"), this patch redefines the macros that
are used in stdint.h so its definitions of uint64_t and int64_t are
compatible with those of the kernel.
This patch comes from: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3540001/
Wrote by: Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref]
We mark this file as a private file and don't have to override asm/types.h
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..145d8ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +#ifndef _NEON_INTRINSICS_H +#define _NEON_INTRINSICS_H + +#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h> + +/* + * For Aarch64, there is some ambiguity in the definition of the types below + * between the kernel and GCC itself. This is usually not a big deal, but it + * causes trouble when including GCC's version of 'stdint.h' (this is the file + * that gets included when you #include <stdint.h> on a -ffreestanding build). + * As this file also gets included implicitly when including 'arm_neon.h' (the + * NEON intrinsics support header), we need the following to work around the + * issue if we want to use NEON intrinsics in the kernel. + */ + +#ifdef __INT64_TYPE__ +#undef __INT64_TYPE__ +#define __INT64_TYPE__ __signed__ long long +#endif + +#ifdef __UINT64_TYPE__ +#undef __UINT64_TYPE__ +#define __UINT64_TYPE__ unsigned long long +#endif + +/* + * genksyms chokes on the ARM NEON instrinsics system header, but we + * don't export anything + * it defines anyway, so just disregard when genksyms execute. + */ +#ifndef __GENKSYMS__ +#include <arm_neon.h> +#endif + +#endif /* ! _NEON_INTRINSICS_H */
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