Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] API for 128-bit IO access

Arnd Bergmann
2018-01-25T13:59:34Z

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:28:55AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> Thanks for doing this test. Looking at this I realize that this is
> not the architecture feature but compiler feature. So if we add
> 128-bit interface, it would be reasonable to add it for all targets
> that compiled with toolchain supporting 128-bit accesses.
>
> There's already the option ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 that is enabled for
> x86_64 in arch/x86/Kconfig and conditionally enabled for arm64 in
> arch/arm64/Makefile:
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-ifversion, -ge, 0500, -DCONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128)
>
> It is used in include/linux/math64.h and in lib/ubsan.c, not so wide.
>
> So I find things little messed. Crypto code ignores compilers' ability
> to operate with 128-bit numbers. Ubsan and math64 relies on compiler
> version (at least for arm64, and I doubt it would work correctly with clang).
> And now I introduce HAVE_128BIT_ACCESS with the same meaning for memory
> access.
>
> I think it's time to unify 128-bit code:
> - enable CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if compiler supports it, ie check
> it like you do below;
> - declare u128 as structure or typedef depending on ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
> in generic include/linux/int128.h, as you suggest here;
> - switch this series to ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128.
>
> Does it sound reasonable?

The CONFIG_* symbol namespace should not be set dynamically. However, you
can define a symbol with another name, e.g. ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 (without
CONFIG_ prefix) in linux/compiler-gcc.h based on the version and BITS_PER_LONG.

Arnd