This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled lib/raid6: use vdupq_n_u8 to avoid endianness warnings to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: lib-raid6-use-vdupq_n_u8-to-avoid-endianness-warnings.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1ad3935b39da78a403e7df7a3813f866c731bc64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx" <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:03:42 -0800 Subject: lib/raid6: use vdupq_n_u8 to avoid endianness warnings From: ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1ad3935b39da78a403e7df7a3813f866c731bc64 upstream. Clang warns: vector initializers are not compatible with NEON intrinsics in big endian mode [-Wnonportable-vector-initialization] While this is usually the case, it's not an issue for this case since we're initializing the uint8x16_t (16x uint8_t's) with the same value. Instead, use vdupq_n_u8 which both compilers lower into a single movi instruction: https://godbolt.org/z/vBrgzt This avoids the static storage for a constant value. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/214 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/raid6/neon.uc | 5 ++--- lib/raid6/recov_neon_inner.c | 7 ++----- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/lib/raid6/neon.uc +++ b/lib/raid6/neon.uc @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ typedef uint8x16_t unative_t; -#define NBYTES(x) ((unative_t){x,x,x,x, x,x,x,x, x,x,x,x, x,x,x,x}) #define NSIZE sizeof(unative_t) /* @@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ void raid6_neon$#_gen_syndrome_real(int int d, z, z0; register unative_t wd$$, wq$$, wp$$, w1$$, w2$$; - const unative_t x1d = NBYTES(0x1d); + const unative_t x1d = vdupq_n_u8(0x1d); z0 = disks - 3; /* Highest data disk */ p = dptr[z0+1]; /* XOR parity */ @@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ void raid6_neon$#_xor_syndrome_real(int int d, z, z0; register unative_t wd$$, wq$$, wp$$, w1$$, w2$$; - const unative_t x1d = NBYTES(0x1d); + const unative_t x1d = vdupq_n_u8(0x1d); z0 = stop; /* P/Q right side optimization */ p = dptr[disks-2]; /* XOR parity */ --- a/lib/raid6/recov_neon_inner.c +++ b/lib/raid6/recov_neon_inner.c @@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ #include <arm_neon.h> -static const uint8x16_t x0f = { - 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, - 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, 0x0f, -}; - #ifdef CONFIG_ARM /* * AArch32 does not provide this intrinsic natively because it does not @@ -41,6 +36,7 @@ void __raid6_2data_recov_neon(int bytes, uint8x16_t pm1 = vld1q_u8(pbmul + 16); uint8x16_t qm0 = vld1q_u8(qmul); uint8x16_t qm1 = vld1q_u8(qmul + 16); + uint8x16_t x0f = vdupq_n_u8(0x0f); /* * while ( bytes-- ) { @@ -87,6 +83,7 @@ void __raid6_datap_recov_neon(int bytes, { uint8x16_t qm0 = vld1q_u8(qmul); uint8x16_t qm1 = vld1q_u8(qmul + 16); + uint8x16_t x0f = vdupq_n_u8(0x0f); /* * while (bytes--) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/lib-raid6-use-vdupq_n_u8-to-avoid-endianness-warnings.patch queue-4.14/misc-echo-remove-unnecessary-parentheses-and-simplif.patch