Commit e213574a authored by Joel Stanley's avatar Joel Stanley Committed by Michael Ellerman

raid6/ppc: Fix build for clang

We cannot build these files with clang as it does not allow altivec
instructions in assembly when -msoft-float is passed.

Jinsong Ji <jji@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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/239Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 3757cba8
......@@ -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
# clang ppc port does not yet support -maltivec 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
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