Re: [PATCH] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__ is defined

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:01:07 -0500
> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> To: bruce.richardson@intel.com
> CC: dev@dpdk.org, gavin.hu@arm.com, rasland@mellanox.com,
>  therbert@redhat.com, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__
>  is defined
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> GCC version 4.8.5 does not pre-define __ARM_NEON. NEON is not
> optional for ArmV8. Hence NEON related code can be enabled
> when __aarch64__ is defined.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 82
> 
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Reported-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
> Reported-by: Thomas F Herbert <therbert@redhat.com>

Fixes:
Cc: stable
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In general, Please follow the above order.

With above change:
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

> ---
>  config/arm/meson.build | 3 ++-
>  mk/rte.cpuflags.mk     | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/config/arm/meson.build b/config/arm/meson.build
> index 40dbc87f7..94cca490e 100644
> --- a/config/arm/meson.build
> +++ b/config/arm/meson.build
> @@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ else
>  endif
>  message(machine_args)
> 
> -if cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != ''
> +if (cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != '' or
> +    cc.get_define('__aarch64__', args: machine_args) != '')
>         dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_NEON', 1)
>         compile_time_cpuflags += ['RTE_CPUFLAG_NEON']
>  endif
> diff --git a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> index 60713137d..43ed84155 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ CPUFLAGS += VSX
>  endif
> 
>  # ARM flags
> -ifneq ($(filter $(AUTO_CPUFLAGS),__ARM_NEON),)
> +ifneq ($(filter __ARM_NEON __aarch64__,$(AUTO_CPUFLAGS)),)
>  CPUFLAGS += NEON
>  endif
> 
> --
> 2.17.1
>