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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2021-08-16 13:50:23 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2021-08-24 16:44:23 +0100
commit04fa17d1368c1f49801c852aac874d99ba5a6d20 (patch)
tree6cfde532c1b23d2d2ca77535278c051662d1da75 /arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
parent38ee3c5e36a134050df93ab911d4713e30a6cde5 (diff)
arm64/sve: Add a comment documenting the binutils needed for SVE asm
At some point it would be nice to avoid the need to manually encode SVE instructions, add a note of the binutils version required to save looking it up. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816125024.8112-1-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
index 059204477ce6..00a2c0b69c2b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
.endm
/* SVE instruction encodings for non-SVE-capable assemblers */
+/* (pre binutils 2.28, all kernel capable clang versions support SVE) */
/* STR (vector): STR Z\nz, [X\nxbase, #\offset, MUL VL] */
.macro _sve_str_v nz, nxbase, offset=0