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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	jpa@kernelbug.mail.kapsi.fi, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:13:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200623191336.GK32590@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdnt+8RR=1JPjDNaVY8T1K7wmqFjSGM7XNUUGRb=t1hiWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:07:13PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> You already have a conditional below for CC_IS_GCC; just add an else
> and unconditionally add -msse2.  You *should* use -msse2 for GCC 7.1+
> IMO.

Why if one can write it more compact with cc-option?

FPU_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-msse2,)

> Note that Clang has -mstack-alignment=8 whereas GCC has
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3.  (Clang is a value in bytes, GCC is 2^X
> bytes)

Sure, the stack boundary setting is GCC only.

> I recommend a version check for GCC < 7.1, or simply disabling the
> self test if the version of GCC used is older than 7.1.

See Andy's suggestion upthread.

And I agree too that using cc-option is better than simply tying it to a
compiler version. Who knows what compiler has what backported. In such
cases a version number means nothing.

> ^ looks familiar ;)

It has been pasted around the kernel, I came to realize today. :-)

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-19 17:41 [PATCH 0/2] x86/FPU: FPU sanitization for in-kernel use Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/fpu: Reset MXCSR to default in kernel_fpu_begin() Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 18:01   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-22 17:09     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-22 18:33       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-22 18:36         ` Petteri Aimonen
2020-06-22 18:38         ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-22 18:40           ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-22 18:59             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 18:00   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-22 17:12     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-22 18:26       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-22 19:01         ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]           ` <B4D00859-000A-4F8C-8CFB-45B9BBCCA16D@amacapital.net>
2020-06-23 10:28             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-23 18:22               ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-23 18:47                 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-23 19:07                   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-23 19:13                     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-06-23 20:58                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-23 21:32                         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-20 19:55   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-22 17:04     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-22 18:15       ` Nick Desaulniers

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