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From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Cc: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, palmer@dabbelt.com,
	anup@brainfault.org, atishp@atishpatra.org,
	kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	vineetg@rivosinc.com, greentime.hu@sifive.com,
	guoren@linux.alibaba.com,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v13 19/19] riscv: Enable Vector code to be built
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 18:19:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+PnorGskAAIsODw@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9d8IBqXyep+PJTq@wendy>

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Hey Andy,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:13:20AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 03:46:32PM +0800, Andy Chiu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:04 AM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Firstly, no-implicit-float is a CFLAG, so why add it to march?
> > I placed it in march because I thought we need the flag in vdso. And,
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS is not enough for vdso. However, I think we don't need
> > this flag in vdso since it is run in user space anyway.
> > > There is an existing patch on the list for enabling this flag, but I
> > > recall Palmer saying that it was not actually needed?
> > The flag is needed for clang builds to prevent auto-vectorization from
> > using V in the kernel code [1].
> > 
> > > Palmer, do you remember why that was?
> > The discussion[2] suggested that we need this flag, IIUC. But somehow
> > the patch did make it into the tree.
> 
> I know, in [1] I left an R-b as the patch seemed reasonable to me.
> Palmer mentioned some reason for not thinking it was actually needed but
> not on-list, so I was hoping he'd comment!

Palmer replied there today with his rationale & an expectation that we
do the same thing for vector as we did for float:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/mhng-4c71ada6-003c-414f-9a74-efa3ccd2856b@palmer-ri-x1c9/T/#m366779709bbcf7672b5277b3bb27a7d6ce6c6115

> 
> And I suppose, it never got any further attention as it isn't needed by
> any in-tree code?
> 
> > [1]https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOnJCULtT-y9vo6YhW7bW9XyKRdod-hvFfr02jHVamR_LcsKdA@mail.gmail.com/
> > [2]https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221216185012.2342675-1-abdulras@google.com/

Cheers,
Conor.


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From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Cc: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, palmer@dabbelt.com,
	anup@brainfault.org, atishp@atishpatra.org,
	kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	vineetg@rivosinc.com, greentime.hu@sifive.com,
	guoren@linux.alibaba.com,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v13 19/19] riscv: Enable Vector code to be built
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 18:19:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+PnorGskAAIsODw@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9d8IBqXyep+PJTq@wendy>


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Hey Andy,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:13:20AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 03:46:32PM +0800, Andy Chiu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:04 AM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Firstly, no-implicit-float is a CFLAG, so why add it to march?
> > I placed it in march because I thought we need the flag in vdso. And,
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS is not enough for vdso. However, I think we don't need
> > this flag in vdso since it is run in user space anyway.
> > > There is an existing patch on the list for enabling this flag, but I
> > > recall Palmer saying that it was not actually needed?
> > The flag is needed for clang builds to prevent auto-vectorization from
> > using V in the kernel code [1].
> > 
> > > Palmer, do you remember why that was?
> > The discussion[2] suggested that we need this flag, IIUC. But somehow
> > the patch did make it into the tree.
> 
> I know, in [1] I left an R-b as the patch seemed reasonable to me.
> Palmer mentioned some reason for not thinking it was actually needed but
> not on-list, so I was hoping he'd comment!

Palmer replied there today with his rationale & an expectation that we
do the same thing for vector as we did for float:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/mhng-4c71ada6-003c-414f-9a74-efa3ccd2856b@palmer-ri-x1c9/T/#m366779709bbcf7672b5277b3bb27a7d6ce6c6115

> 
> And I suppose, it never got any further attention as it isn't needed by
> any in-tree code?
> 
> > [1]https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOnJCULtT-y9vo6YhW7bW9XyKRdod-hvFfr02jHVamR_LcsKdA@mail.gmail.com/
> > [2]https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221216185012.2342675-1-abdulras@google.com/

Cheers,
Conor.


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25 14:20 [PATCH -next v13 00/19] riscv: Add vector ISA support Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 01/19] riscv: Rename __switch_to_aux -> fpu Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 21:15   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:15     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 02/19] riscv: Extending cpufeature.c to detect V-extension Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 21:33   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:33     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-28  7:09     ` Guo Ren
2023-01-28  7:09       ` Guo Ren
2023-01-28 10:28       ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-28 10:28         ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 03/19] riscv: Add new csr defines related to vector extension Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 22:16   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 22:16     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 04/19] riscv: Clear vector regfile on bootup Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 21:54   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:54     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:57     ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-25 21:57       ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-25 22:18       ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 22:18         ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 05/19] riscv: Disable Vector Instructions for kernel itself Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 21:51   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:51     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 06/19] riscv: Introduce Vector enable/disable helpers Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 21:06   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 21:06     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 07/19] riscv: Introduce riscv_vsize to record size of Vector context Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 21:24   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 21:24     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 08/19] riscv: Introduce struct/helpers to save/restore per-task Vector state Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 21:32   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 21:32     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 09/19] riscv: Add task switch support for vector Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 21:44   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 21:44     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-31  2:55   ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-31  2:55     ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 10/19] riscv: Allocate user's vector context in the first-use trap Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 23:11   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 23:11     ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-06 12:00     ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-06 12:00       ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-06 13:40       ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-06 13:40         ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-10 12:00         ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-10 12:00           ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-07 14:36   ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-07 14:36     ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-13 22:54     ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-13 22:54       ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-14  6:43       ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-14  6:43         ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-14 15:36         ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-14 15:36           ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-14 16:50           ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-14 16:50             ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-14 17:24             ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-14 17:24               ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-15  7:14               ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-15  7:14                 ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-15 14:39                 ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-15 14:39                   ` Andy Chiu
2023-02-07 21:18   ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-07 21:18     ` Vineet Gupta
2023-02-08  9:20     ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-08  9:20       ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 11/19] riscv: Add ptrace vector support Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 12/19] riscv: signal: check fp-reserved words unconditionally Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 13/19] riscv: signal: Add sigcontext save/restore for vector Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 14/19] riscv: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-26 23:19   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-26 23:19     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-31 12:34     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-31 12:34       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 15/19] riscv: Fix a kernel panic issue if $s2 is set to a specific value before entering Linux Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-27 20:31   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-27 20:31     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-31 12:34     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-31 12:34       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 16/19] riscv: Add V extension to KVM ISA Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-27 20:43   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-27 20:43     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-30  9:58     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30  9:58       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 17/19] riscv: KVM: Add vector lazy save/restore support Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 18/19] riscv: kvm: redirect illegal instruction traps to guests Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-27 11:28   ` Anup Patel
2023-01-27 11:28     ` Anup Patel
2023-01-30  8:18     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30  8:18       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20 ` [PATCH -next v13 19/19] riscv: Enable Vector code to be built Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 14:20   ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-25 21:04   ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:04     ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 21:38     ` Jessica Clarke
2023-01-25 21:38       ` Jessica Clarke
2023-01-25 22:24       ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-25 22:24         ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-30  6:38     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30  6:38       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30 18:38       ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-30 18:38         ` Vineet Gupta
2023-01-30  7:46     ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30  7:46       ` Andy Chiu
2023-01-30  8:13       ` Conor Dooley
2023-01-30  8:13         ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-08 18:19         ` Conor Dooley [this message]
2023-02-08 18:19           ` Conor Dooley

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