[PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Kumar Gala]

For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.

We are removing it because:

1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 9a3ec66..19fad00 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o \
 	    hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o srcu.o semaphore.o \
 	    notifier.o ksysfs.o pm_qos_params.o sched_clock.o
 
-CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe
-
 ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 # Do not trace debug files and internal ftrace files
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_lockdep.o = -pg
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_mutex-debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg
-CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe -pg
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -pg
 endif
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
-- 
1.5.6.5

Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Steven Rostedt]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
> instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
> 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>   

The unknown reason was that my PPC64 failed to compile without it ;-) It 
was unknown because I forgot to mention that in the change log (my bad).

On Monday, I'll apply this patch and make sure that my PPC64 still compiles.

-- Steve

> We are removing it because:
>
> 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
> 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
> 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
> 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>  kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index 9a3ec66..19fad00 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o \
>  	    hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o srcu.o semaphore.o \
>  	    notifier.o ksysfs.o pm_qos_params.o sched_clock.o
>  
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe
> -
>  ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
>  # Do not trace debug files and internal ftrace files
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_lockdep.o = -pg
> @@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_mutex-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe -pg
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -pg
>  endif
>  
>  obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
>   

Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the  
>> SPE
>> instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
>> 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>>
>
> The unknown reason was that my PPC64 failed to compile without  
> it ;-) It was unknown because I forgot to mention that in the change  
> log (my bad).
>
> On Monday, I'll apply this patch and make sure that my PPC64 still  
> compiles.
>
> -- Steve

Thanks, if you can Ack the patch today if it works for you that would  
be great.

- k

>
>
>> We are removing it because:
>>
>> 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
>> 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
>> 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
>> 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
>> ---
>> kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the  
>> SPE
>> instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
>> 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>>
>
> The unknown reason was that my PPC64 failed to compile without  
> it ;-) It was unknown because I forgot to mention that in the change  
> log (my bad).

Are you sure you were building a ppc64 kernel?  This makes no sense in  
that the -mno-spe flag should not be relevant at all to such a kernel  
build.  (No ppc64 chip has SPE support and thus the compiler doesnt  
support generation of the instructions in that mode).

Were you building some ppc32 targeted kernel?

- k

Re: [PATCH][for 2.6.28] Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong

[Steven Rostedt]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
> instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
> 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a.
>
> We are removing it because:
>
> 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
> 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
> 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
> 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
>
>   

I just tested this change on both my PPC64 and my 32bit Powerbook.

Tested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>  kernel/Makefile |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index 9a3ec66..19fad00 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o \
>  	    hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o srcu.o semaphore.o \
>  	    notifier.o ksysfs.o pm_qos_params.o sched_clock.o
>  
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe
> -
>  ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
>  # Do not trace debug files and internal ftrace files
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_lockdep.o = -pg
> @@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_mutex-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -mno-spe -pg
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched.o = -pg
>  endif
>  
>  obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
>