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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [committed, PATCH] x86: Don't disable SSE4a when disabling SSE4
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200217013156.GB5570@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOpGnK4wHiiOqG_V4jMo3jpjxT=+XMykGhZBKw3PdexYqg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 05:19:39PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 5:06 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 08:47:56AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > commit 7deea9aad8 changed nosse4 to include CpuSSE4a.  But AMD SSE4a is
> > > a superset of SSE3 and Intel SSE4 is a superset of SSSE3.  Disable Intel
> > > SSE4 shouldn't disable AMD SSE4a.  This patch restores nosse4.  It also
> > > adds .sse4a and nosse4a.
> >
> > diff --git a/opcodes/i386-gen.c b/opcodes/i386-gen.c
> > index 79f4cc9d25..45106bcf6d 100644
> > --- a/opcodes/i386-gen.c
> > +++ b/opcodes/i386-gen.c
> > @@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ static initializer cpu_flag_init[] =
> >    { "CPU_ANY_SSE2_FLAGS",
> >      "CPU_ANY_SSE3_FLAGS|CpuSSE2" },
> >    { "CPU_ANY_SSE3_FLAGS",
> > +  { "CPU_ANY_SSE4A_FLAGS",
> > +    "CPU_ANY_SSE3_FLAGS|CpuSSE4a" },
> >      "CPU_ANY_SSSE3_FLAGS|CpuSSE3|CpuSSE4a" },
> >    { "CPU_ANY_SSSE3_FLAGS",
> >      "CPU_ANY_SSE4_1_FLAGS|CpuSSSE3" },
> > @@ -333,8 +335,6 @@ static initializer cpu_flag_init[] =
> >      "CPU_ANY_SSE4_2_FLAGS|CpuSSE4_1" },
> >    { "CPU_ANY_SSE4_2_FLAGS",
> >      "CpuSSE4_2" },
> > -  { "CPU_ANY_SSE4_FLAGS",
> > -    "CPU_ANY_SSE4_1_FLAGS|CpuSSE4a" },
> >    { "CPU_ANY_AVX_FLAGS",
> >      "CPU_ANY_AVX2_FLAGS|CpuF16C|CpuFMA|CpuFMA4|CpuXOP|CpuAVX" },
> >    { "CPU_ANY_AVX2_FLAGS",
> >
> > Merge error?
> 
> Is there anything wrong?

It doesn't compile.  The CPU_ANY_SSE4A_FLAGS entry is added inside the
CPU_ANY_SSE3_FLAGS entry.  Take a look at the diff.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-17  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 17:08 [PATCH] x86: fix SSE4a dependencies of ".arch .nosse*" Jan Beulich
2020-02-12 17:19 ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-16 16:48   ` [committed, PATCH] x86: Don't disable SSE4a when disabling SSE4 H.J. Lu
2020-02-17  1:06     ` Alan Modra
2020-02-17  1:20       ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-17  1:32         ` Alan Modra [this message]
2020-02-17  3:12           ` Alan Modra
2020-02-17  4:16             ` [committed, PATCH] Don't disable SSE3 when disabling SSE4a H.J. Lu
2020-02-17 15:27     ` [committed, PATCH] x86: Don't disable SSE4a when disabling SSE4 Jan Beulich
2020-02-17 15:30       ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-17 15:32         ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-17 15:45           ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-17 15:49             ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-17 16:53               ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-17 17:01                 ` Jan Beulich
2020-02-17 17:05                   ` H.J. Lu

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