Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm/curve25519 - Move '.fpu' after '.arch'

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Apr 16 2021 - 07:33:24 EST


On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 03:11:55PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Debian's clang carries a patch that makes the default FPU mode
> 'vfp3-d16' instead of 'neon' for 'armv7-a' to avoid generating NEON
> instructions on hardware that does not support them:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/-/raw/5a61ca6f21b4ad8c6ac4970e5ea5a7b5b4486d22/debian/patches/clang-arm-default-vfp3-on-armv7a.patch
> https://bugs.debian.org/841474
> https://bugs.debian.org/842142
> https://bugs.debian.org/914268
>
> This results in the following build error when clang's integrated
> assembler is used because the '.arch' directive overrides the '.fpu'
> directive:
>
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:25:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
> vmov.i32 q0, #1
> ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:26:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
> vshr.u64 q1, q0, #7
> ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:27:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
> vshr.u64 q0, q0, #8
> ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:28:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
> vmov.i32 d4, #19
> ^
>
> Shuffle the order of the '.arch' and '.fpu' directives so that the code
> builds regardless of the default FPU mode. This has been tested against
> both clang with and without Debian's patch and GCC.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: d8f1308a025f ("crypto: arm/curve25519 - wire up NEON implementation")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration2/issues/118
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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