raid6/ppc: Fix build for clang
authorJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Fri, 2 Nov 2018 00:44:55 +0000 (11:14 +1030)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:53:11 +0000 (20:53 +1100)
commite213574a449f7a57d4202c1869bbc7680b6b5521
tree1fc6151d34d0b9bfe0954309c30516afa6318f78
parent3757cba80affcef2ef670f0db3d3504ccf967830
raid6/ppc: Fix build for clang

We cannot build these files with clang as it does not allow altivec
instructions in assembly when -msoft-float is passed.

Jinsong Ji <jji@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> We currently disable Altivec/VSX support when enabling soft-float.  So
> any usage of vector builtins will break.
>
> Enable Altivec/VSX with soft-float may need quite some clean up work, so
> I guess this is currently a limitation.
>
> Removing -msoft-float will make it work (and we are lucky that no
> floating point instructions will be generated as well).

This is a workaround until the issue is resolved in clang.

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31177
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/239
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
lib/raid6/Makefile