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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/neon.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/neon.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8f730fe70 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/neon.h @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* + * linux/arch/arm/include/asm/neon.h + * + * Copyright (C) 2013 Linaro Ltd <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as + * published by the Free Software Foundation. + */ + +#include <asm/hwcap.h> + +#define cpu_has_neon() (!!(elf_hwcap & HWCAP_NEON)) + +#ifdef __ARM_NEON__ + +/* + * If you are affected by the BUILD_BUG below, it probably means that you are + * using NEON code /and/ calling the kernel_neon_begin() function from the same + * compilation unit. To prevent issues that may arise from GCC reordering or + * generating(1) NEON instructions outside of these begin/end functions, the + * only supported way of using NEON code in the kernel is by isolating it in a + * separate compilation unit, and calling it from another unit from inside a + * kernel_neon_begin/kernel_neon_end pair. + * + * (1) Current GCC (4.7) might generate NEON instructions at O3 level if + * -mpfu=neon is set. + */ + +#define kernel_neon_begin() \ + BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(1, "kernel_neon_begin() called from NEON code") + +#else +void kernel_neon_begin(void); +#endif +void kernel_neon_end(void); |