Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm/curve25519 - Move '.fpu' after '.arch'

[Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 3:12 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Debian's clang carries a patch that makes the default FPU mode
> 'vfp3-d16' instead of 'neon' for 'armv7-a' to avoid generating NEON
> instructions on hardware that does not support them:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/-/raw/5a61ca6f21b4ad8c6ac4970e5ea5a7b5b4486d22/debian/patches/clang-arm-default-vfp3-on-armv7a.patch
> https://bugs.debian.org/841474
> https://bugs.debian.org/842142
> https://bugs.debian.org/914268

Another good link would be the one from Jessica describing more
precisely what the ARM targets for Debian are:
https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo#armel

>
> This results in the following build error when clang's integrated
> assembler is used because the '.arch' directive overrides the '.fpu'
> directive:
>
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:25:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
>  vmov.i32 q0, #1
>  ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:26:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
>  vshr.u64 q1, q0, #7
>  ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:27:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
>  vshr.u64 q0, q0, #8
>  ^
> arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S:28:2: error: instruction requires: NEON
>  vmov.i32 d4, #19
>  ^
>
> Shuffle the order of the '.arch' and '.fpu' directives so that the code
> builds regardless of the default FPU mode. This has been tested against
> both clang with and without Debian's patch and GCC.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: d8f1308a025f ("crypto: arm/curve25519 - wire up NEON implementation")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration2/issues/118
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Suggested-by: Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Great work tracking down that Debian was carrying patches! Thank you!
I've run this through the same 3 assemblers.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S b/arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S
> index be18af52e7dc..b697fa5d059a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/crypto/curve25519-core.S
> @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
>  #include <linux/linkage.h>
>
>  .text
> -.fpu neon
>  .arch armv7-a
> +.fpu neon
>  .align 4
>
>  ENTRY(curve25519_neon)
>
> base-commit: e49d033bddf5b565044e2abe4241353959bc9120
> --
> 2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers