linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] amdgpu/dc/calcs: Support clang option for stack alignment

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Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:44:21 -0500
From:   Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        David Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Dmytro Laktyushkin <Dmytro.Laktyushkin@....com>
Cc:     Craig Bergstrom <craigb@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Justin TerAvest <teravest@...omium.org>,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] amdgpu/dc/calcs: Support clang option for stack
 alignment

On 2018-02-08 04:03 PM, Harry Wentland wrote:
> On 2018-02-08 03:53 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> calcs uses the compiler option -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4 to configure
>> a stack alignment of 16 bytes. Clang uses the option -mstack-alignment
>> instead, which expects as parameter the alignment in bytes, and not a
>> power of two like -mpreferred-stack-boundary.
>>
>> Probe for both compiler options and use the correct one, similar to
>> what is done in arch/x86/Makefile.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
> 
> Series is
> Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>

... and merged to amd-staging-drm-next.

I had to resolve a small conflict with patches 1 & 2. Not a big deal but curious what development branch you use. We normally use this for amd-gfx development: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=amd-staging-drm-next (although it might be a bit behind our internal dev tree).

Harry

> 
> Harry
> 
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - patch added
>>
>> Note to self: if this patterns proliferates further we probably want to
>> put the evaluation of the correct compiler flag in some common place.
>>
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/calcs/Makefile | 8 +++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/calcs/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/calcs/Makefile
>> index af0f452f3c9f..95f332ee3e7e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/calcs/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/calcs/Makefile
>> @@ -24,7 +24,13 @@
>>  # It calculates Bandwidth and Watermarks values for HW programming
>>  #
>>  
>> -calcs_ccflags := -mhard-float -msse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
>> +ifneq ($(call cc-option, -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4),)
>> +	cc_stack_align := -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4
>> +else ifneq ($(call cc-option, -mstack-alignment=16),)
>> +	cc_stack_align := -mstack-alignment=16
>> +endif
>> +
>> +calcs_ccflags := -mhard-float -msse $(cc_stack_align)
>>  
>>  CFLAGS_dcn_calcs.o := $(calcs_ccflags)
>>  CFLAGS_dcn_calc_auto.o := $(calcs_ccflags)
>>
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