[PATCH 0/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: Remove warn & disble neon vect

[Adrian Ratiu]

Dear all,

This is my attempt to close the loop on a relatively old discussion
[1] caused by a compiler bug [2]. In a nutshell, the Clang build issues
a bogus warning about GCC while it silently botches the neon auto-loop
vectorization. :)

Many thanks to all who have investigated this issue before me. Arnd
posted a workaround for xor.h [3], but I very much like his first
suggestion of disabling the broken feature until the compiler is fixed.

Tested on latest linux next-20201105 using bcm2835 & versatile configs
and Clang 10.0.1

P.S: While testing aarch64/imx8m I also noticed vectorization is broke
there as well, but that deserves its own patch because it's a separate
xor-neon implementation (if this approach is deemed sensible).

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20190528235742.105510-1-natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40976
[3] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40976#c6

Kind regards,
Adrian

Adrian Ratiu (1):
  arm: lib: xor-neon: disable clang vectorization

Nathan Chancellor (1):
  arm: lib: xor-neon: remove unnecessary GCC < 4.6 warning

 arch/arm/include/asm/xor.h |  3 ++-
 arch/arm/lib/Makefile      |  3 +++
 arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c    | 13 +++++--------
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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