[PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: use VFP assembler mnemonics in register load/store macros

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Fri Jun 26 17:26:12 EDT 2020


The integrated assembler of Clang 10 and earlier do not allow to access
the VFP registers through the coprocessor load/store instructions:
<instantiation>:4:6: error: invalid operand for instruction
 LDC p11, cr0, [r10],#32*4 @ FLDMIAD r10!, {d0-d15}
     ^

This has been addressed with Clang 11 [0]. However, to support earlier
versions of Clang and for better readability use of VFP assembler
mnemonics still is preferred.

Replace the coprocessor load/store instructions with explicit assembler
mnemonics to accessing the floating point coprocessor registers. Use
assembler directives to select the appropriate FPU version.

This allows to build these macros with GNU assembler as well as with
Clang's built-in assembler.

[0] https://reviews.llvm.org/D59733

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/905
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
---
Changes in v3:
- Reworded commit message, adding hint that Clang 11 won't have this
  restriction any longer

Changes in v2:
- Add link in commit message

 arch/arm/include/asm/vfpmacros.h | 19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vfpmacros.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vfpmacros.h
index 628c336e8e3b..947ee5395e1f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vfpmacros.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vfpmacros.h
@@ -19,23 +19,25 @@
 
 	@ read all the working registers back into the VFP
 	.macro	VFPFLDMIA, base, tmp
+	.fpu	vfpv2
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
-	LDC	p11, cr0, [\base],#33*4		    @ FLDMIAX \base!, {d0-d15}
+	fldmiax	\base!, {d0-d15}
 #else
-	LDC	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FLDMIAD \base!, {d0-d15}
+	vldmia	\base!, {d0-d15}
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_VFPv3
+	.fpu	vfpv3
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ <= 6
 	ldr	\tmp, =elf_hwcap		    @ may not have MVFR regs
 	ldr	\tmp, [\tmp, #0]
 	tst	\tmp, #HWCAP_VFPD32
-	ldclne	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FLDMIAD \base!, {d16-d31}
+	vldmiane \base!, {d16-d31}
 	addeq	\base, \base, #32*4		    @ step over unused register space
 #else
 	VFPFMRX	\tmp, MVFR0			    @ Media and VFP Feature Register 0
 	and	\tmp, \tmp, #MVFR0_A_SIMD_MASK	    @ A_SIMD field
 	cmp	\tmp, #2			    @ 32 x 64bit registers?
-	ldcleq	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FLDMIAD \base!, {d16-d31}
+	vldmiaeq \base!, {d16-d31}
 	addne	\base, \base, #32*4		    @ step over unused register space
 #endif
 #endif
@@ -44,22 +46,23 @@
 	@ write all the working registers out of the VFP
 	.macro	VFPFSTMIA, base, tmp
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
-	STC	p11, cr0, [\base],#33*4		    @ FSTMIAX \base!, {d0-d15}
+	fstmiax	\base!, {d0-d15}
 #else
-	STC	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FSTMIAD \base!, {d0-d15}
+	vstmia	\base!, {d0-d15}
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_VFPv3
+	.fpu	vfpv3
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ <= 6
 	ldr	\tmp, =elf_hwcap		    @ may not have MVFR regs
 	ldr	\tmp, [\tmp, #0]
 	tst	\tmp, #HWCAP_VFPD32
-	stclne	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FSTMIAD \base!, {d16-d31}
+	vstmiane \base!, {d16-d31}
 	addeq	\base, \base, #32*4		    @ step over unused register space
 #else
 	VFPFMRX	\tmp, MVFR0			    @ Media and VFP Feature Register 0
 	and	\tmp, \tmp, #MVFR0_A_SIMD_MASK	    @ A_SIMD field
 	cmp	\tmp, #2			    @ 32 x 64bit registers?
-	stcleq	p11, cr0, [\base],#32*4		    @ FSTMIAD \base!, {d16-d31}
+	vstmiaeq \base!, {d16-d31}
 	addne	\base, \base, #32*4		    @ step over unused register space
 #endif
 #endif
-- 
2.27.0




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