Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2020-11-13

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: remove unnecessary GCC < 4.6 warning

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date: 2020-11-12 21:39:21
Also in: lkml

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM Adrian Ratiu [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>

Drop warning because kernel now requires GCC >= v4.9 after
commit 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9").

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <redacted>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/496
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/503
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
index b99dd8e1c93f..e1e76186ec23 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
@@ -19,15 +19,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
  * -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"
--
2.29.2

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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