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Commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1")
raised the minimum compiler version as enforced by Kbuild to gcc-8.1
and clang-15 for x86.
This is actually the same gcc version that has been discussed as the
minimum for all architectures several times in the past, with little
objection. A previous concern was the kernel for SLE15-SP7 needing to
be built with gcc-7. As this ended up still using linux-6.4 and there
is no plan for an SP8, this is no longer a problem.
Change it for all architectures and adjust the documentation accordingly.
A few version checks can be removed in the process. The binutils
version 2.30 is the lowest version used in combination with gcc-8 on
common distros, so use that as the corresponding minimum.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871q7yxrgv.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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There are cases when we need to explicitly unroll loops. For example,
cache operations, filling DMA descriptors on very high speeds etc.
Add compiler-specific attribute macros to give the compiler a hint
that we'd like to unroll a loop.
Example usage:
#define UNROLL_BATCH 8
unrolled_count(UNROLL_BATCH)
for (u32 i = 0; i < UNROLL_BATCH; i++)
op(priv, i);
Note that sometimes the compilers won't unroll loops if they think this
would have worse optimization and perf than without unrolling, and that
unroll attributes are available only starting GCC 8. For older compiler
versions, no hints/attributes will be applied.
For better unrolling/parallelization, don't have any variables that
interfere between iterations except for the iterator itself.
Co-developed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> # pragmas
Signed-off-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250206182630.3914318-2-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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This helps in easily initializing blocks of code (e.g. static calls and
keys).
UNROLL(N, MACRO, __VA_ARGS__) calls MACRO N times with the first
argument as the index of the iteration. This allows string pasting to
create unique tokens for variable names, function calls etc.
As an example:
#include <linux/unroll.h>
#define MACRO(N, a, b) \
int add_##N(int a, int b) \
{ \
return a + b + N; \
}
UNROLL(2, MACRO, x, y)
expands to:
int add_0(int x, int y)
{
return x + y + 0;
}
int add_1(int x, int y)
{
return x + y + 1;
}
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Nacked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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