Re: [PATCH] ARM: xor-neon: Replace __GNUC__ checks with CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:05:22AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> If I remember correctly, we also had the same issue with older versions
> of clang, possibly even newer ones. Shouldn't we check for a minimum
> compiler version when building with clang to ensure that the code is
> really vectorized?
> 
>        Arnd

Even on tip of tree, it doesn't look like vectorization happens
properly. With -S -Rpass-missed='.*' added to the xor-neon.c command:

/home/nathan/cbl/linux-next/include/asm-generic/xor.h:15:2: remark: the cost-model indicates that interleaving is not beneficial [-Rpass-missed=loop-vectorize]
/home/nathan/cbl/linux-next/include/asm-generic/xor.h:11:1: remark: List vectorization was possible but not beneficial with cost 0 >= 0 [-Rpass-missed=slp-vectorizer]
xor_8regs_2(unsigned long bytes, unsigned long *p1, unsigned long *p2)
^

So right now, it doesn't look like there is a minimum version for clang
and I don't think adding a warning for clang is productive (what is a
user supposed to do?)

Cheers,
Nathan