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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: remove unnecessary GCC < 4.6 warning
Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:37:22 +0200
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From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

Drop warning because kernel now requires GCC >= v4.9 after
commit 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
and clarify that -ftree-vectorize now always needs enabling
for GCC by directly testing the presence of CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC.

Another reason to remove the warning is that Clang exposes
itself as GCC < 4.6 so it triggers the warning about GCC
which doesn't make much sense and risks misleading users.

As a side-note remark, -fttree-vectorize is on by default in
Clang, but it currently does not work (see linked issues).

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/496
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/503
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
---
 arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
index b99dd8e1c93f..e1e76186ec23 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c
@@ -19,15 +19,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
  * -ftree-vectorize) to attempt to exploit implicit parallelism and emit
  * NEON instructions.
  */
-#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
 #pragma GCC optimize "tree-vectorize"
-#else
-/*
- * While older versions of GCC do not generate incorrect code, they fail to
- * recognize the parallel nature of these functions, and emit plain ARM code,
- * which is known to be slower than the optimized ARM code in asm-arm/xor.h.
- */
-#warning This code requires at least version 4.6 of GCC
 #endif
 
 #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-variable"
-- 
2.29.2