From 2120596d67eaf88c121eab78c63609342b8bd4fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Desaulniers Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:53:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] FROMLIST: ARM: NWFPE: avoid compiler-generated __aeabi_uldivmod 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 Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Bug: 250930332 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221010225342.3903590-1-ndesaulniers@google.com/ Change-Id: I038f06e43420e72927956133a8fe39a3db21a9db --- arch/arm/nwfpe/Makefile | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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