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authorNick Desaulniers2022-10-11 20:00:12 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2023-01-07 11:11:49 +0100
commit94d23f8b78400a7f04da6d77abc294dd56daaea0 (patch)
tree711cc295cea9c9612170b0eed3e79207ed4a9b4b /arch
parent2833221e0b0f7a7b3e82e6a68f0407f1808ffc44 (diff)
ARM: 9256/1: NWFPE: avoid compiler-generated __aeabi_uldivmod
commit 3220022038b9a3845eea762af85f1c5694b9f861 upstream. clang-15's ability to elide loops completely became more aggressive when it can deduce how a variable is being updated in a loop. Counting down one variable by an increment of another can be replaced by a modulo operation. For 64b variables on 32b ARM EABI targets, this can result in the compiler generating calls to __aeabi_uldivmod, which it does for a do while loop in float64_rem(). For the kernel, we'd generally prefer that developers not open code 64b division via binary / operators and instead use the more explicit helpers from div64.h. On arm-linux-gnuabi targets, failure to do so can result in linkage failures due to undefined references to __aeabi_uldivmod(). While developers can avoid open coding divisions on 64b variables, the compiler doesn't know that the Linux kernel has a partial implementation of a compiler runtime (--rtlib) to enforce this convention. It's also undecidable for the compiler whether the code in question would be faster to execute the loop vs elide it and do the 64b division. While I actively avoid using the internal -mllvm command line flags, I think we get better code than using barrier() here, which will force reloads+spills in the loop for all toolchains. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1666 Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile b/arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile
index 303400fa2cdf..2aec85ab1e8b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile
@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ nwfpe-y += fpa11.o fpa11_cpdo.o fpa11_cpdt.o \
entry.o
nwfpe-$(CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE_XP) += extended_cpdo.o
+
+# Try really hard to avoid generating calls to __aeabi_uldivmod() from
+# float64_rem() due to loop elision.
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
+CFLAGS_softfloat.o += -mllvm -replexitval=never
+endif