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Message-ID: <CAGWvny=pxWAy=FfaxNG=N-ZxEggq8iy9GFPRTJuE-A8=QZAOwQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:54:54 -0400 From: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@...il.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390x: Add single instruction math functions On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:28 AM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@...il.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote: >> * David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@...il.com> [2017-06-11 22:46:09 -0400]: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote: >>> > * Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> [2017-06-10 22:20:44 -0400]: >>> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 05:48:05PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: >>> >> > When I worked with Bobby Bingham to create the s390x port of Musl, I >>> >> > said that he could assume newer processors. Also, I don't believe >>> >> > that LLVM supports the earlier processors. I believe that he assumed >>> >> > some more recent instructions in other parts of the code. >>> >> >>> >> That seems doubtful; the amount of asm in musl is minimal and unlikely >>> >> to benefit from later ISA levels; all the instructions I see look like >>> >> very basic stuff that would always have been available. >>> >> >>> >> Now, what likely is accurate is your claim that nobody is using musl >>> >> on lower ISA levels, so maybe it doesn't matter. >>> > >>> > well i am using s390x musl with lower isa level for compile tests >>> > >>> > and it seems gas rejects unrecognized opcodes so the new inline >>> > asm does not compile for me. >>> > >>> > i think either musl configure should make sure the cc targets >>> > the right isa level or the code should handle it with ifdefs >>> >>> I have asked the IBM toolchain team how to distinguish the >>> architecture level at compile time, or at least distinguish support >>> for the FP rounding instruction. >>> >>> Are you actually running s390x musl on a system earlier than z196 >>> architecture level? The public IBM LinuxONE Cloud is running on a z13 >>> system, many generations newer than even z196. >>> >> >> no, i only have a cross compiler, but since the toolchain build script >> uses default settings i get z900 arch, if that's not good then gcc >> config default should be fixed for musl. >> >>> The following IBM table of supported and tested systems >>> >>> https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/resources/testedplatforms.html >>> >>> shows that RHEL 7 and SLES 12 require at least z196, and Ubuntu 16.04 >>> requires at least zEC12. >>> >>> I can't find any official hardware requirements description for Alpine >>> Linux. I tend to doubt that user would run it on older hardware, >>> especially hardware no longer supported by other, modern Linux >>> distributions. >>> >>> Building musl libc on older hardware is a nice accomplishment, but >>> investing effort and complexity to maintain support probably isn't >>> useful to any musl libc user and probably isn't a productive use of >>> developer resources. >>> >>> I will continue to inquire if there is a simple technique to accomplish this. > > Apparently GCC 7.1 added architecture macros. > > As Tuan referenced, Alpine Linux also requires z196 as the minimum > architecture level. I believe that it would be better for s390-musl > to default to z196 ISA than musl to require GCC 7.1. Would a patch such as the following be acceptable? Thanks, David diff --git a/configure b/configure index c2db298..a9e0256 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -494,6 +494,15 @@ fnmatch '-mtune=*|*\ -mtune=*' "$CC $CFLAGS" || tryldflag C fi # +# On s390x, default to z196 architecture and zEC12 tuning to support newer math +# instructions. +# +if test "$ARCH" = "s390x" ; then +fnmatch '-march=*|*\ -march=*' "$CC $CFLAGS" || tryldflag CFLAGS_AUTO -march=z196 +fnmatch '-mtune=*|*\ -mtune=*' "$CC $CFLAGS" || tryldflag CFLAGS_AUTO -mtune=zEC12 +fi + +# # Even with -std=c99, gcc accepts some constructs which are constraint # violations. We want to treat these as errors regardless of whether # other purely stylistic warnings are enabled -- especially implicit
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