[PATCH] arm64: Add support ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128

[will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:57:50AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 02:55:23PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > The gcc support __SIZEOF_INT128__ and __int128 in arm64, thus,
> > enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 to make mul_u64_u32_shr() a bit
> > more efficient in scheduler.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > index 5a0a691..ab319eb 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ARM64
> >  	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
> >  	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
> >  	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
> > +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
> >  	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
> >  	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
> >  	select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> 
> With this patch and UBSAN+KASAN enabled, Linux fails to link with:
> 
> lib/built-in.o: In function `get_signed_val':
> lib/ubsan.c:93: undefined reference to `__ashlti3'
> lib/ubsan.c:93: undefined reference to `__ashrti3'
> 
> It succeeds if I revert commit d67703a8a69e ("arm64: kill off the libgcc
> dependency"). We may have to revisit that decision or implement the
> required library functions in the kernel. In general, I'd like to reduce
> the amount of code duplication if the functionality can be found
> elsewhere like in libgcc. There is a risk of not knowing precisely what
> ligbcc relies on (like libc functions), though there are other
> architectures linking against it.

Linking agianst libgcc is pretty scary if we're starting to use plugins
for the compiler[1], but IANAL.

Will

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/691102/