Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2018-11-01

Re: [PATCH] raid6/ppc: Fix build for clang

From: Nick Desaulniers <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-31 19:55:11
Also in: lkml

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:28 PM Joel Stanley [off-list ref] wrote:
We cannot build these files with clang as it does not allow altivec
instructions in assembly when -msoft-float is passed.

Jinsong Ji [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
We currently disable Altivec/VSX support when enabling soft-float.  So
any usage of vector builtins will break.

Enable Altivec/VSX with soft-float may need quite some clean up work, so
I guess this is currently a limitation.

Removing -msoft-float will make it work (and we are lucky that no
floating point instructions will be generated as well).
This is a workaround until the issue is resolved in clang.

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31177
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/239
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Hopefully we can have this fixed up soon.  I'll try to see who works
on Clang+PPC here and see if they can help move that bug along. Thanks
for the patch!
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---
 lib/raid6/Makefile | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/raid6/Makefile b/lib/raid6/Makefile
index 2f8b61dfd9b0..3a844e6fd01c 100644
--- a/lib/raid6/Makefile
+++ b/lib/raid6/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,21 @@ quiet_cmd_unroll = UNROLL  $@

 ifeq ($(CONFIG_ALTIVEC),y)
 altivec_flags := -maltivec $(call cc-option,-mabi=altivec)
+
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
Note that the top level makefile detects clang via:

ifeq ($(cc-name),clang)

Does that not work here? I'd prefer to keep compiler detection in
Makefiles consistent, if it works?
+# clang ppc port does not yet support -maltifec when -msoft-float is
+# enabled. A future release of clang will resolve this
+# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31177
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_altivec1.o  += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_altivec2.o  += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_altivec4.o  += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_altivec8.o  += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_altivec8.o  += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vpermxor1.o += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vpermxor2.o += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vpermxor4.o += -msoft-float
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vpermxor8.o += -msoft-float
+endif
 endif

 # The GCC option -ffreestanding is required in order to compile code containing
--
2.19.1

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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