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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:48:56 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc: "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@....com>,
"Naresh Kamboju" <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
"open list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Linux ARM" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, "Maxime Ripard" <mripard@...nel.org>,
"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...hat.com>,
"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: arm: ERROR: modpost: "__aeabi_uldivmod"
[drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i-drm-hdmi.ko] undefined!
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024, at 14:01, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:35, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024, at 12:45, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> It's not critical if this is called infrequently, and as Maxime
>> just replied, the 64-bit division is in fact required here.
>> Since we are dividing by a constant value (200), there is a good
>> chance that this will be get turned into fairly efficient
>> multiply/shift code.
>>
>
> Clang does not implement that optimization for 64-bit division. That
> is how we ended up with this error in the first place.
I meant it will use the optimization after the patch to convert
the plain '/' to div_u64().
> Perhaps it is worthwhile to make div_u64() check its divisor, e.g.,
>
> --- a/include/linux/math64.h
> +++ b/include/linux/math64.h
> @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@
> static inline u64 div_u64(u64 dividend, u32 divisor)
> {
> u32 remainder;
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) && __builtin_constant_p(divisor))
> + return dividend / divisor;
> return div_u64_rem(dividend, divisor, &remainder);
> }
I think the div_u64()->do_div()->__div64_const32()->__arch_xprod_64()
optimization in asm-generic/div64.h already produces what we want
on both compilers. Is there something missing there?
Arnd
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