On Sat, 07 Nov 2020, Russell King - ARM Linux admin 
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 07:14:36AM +0200, Adrian Ratiu wrote: 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c 
>> index e1e76186ec23..84c91c48dfa2 100644 --- 
>> a/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c +++ b/arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c @@ 
>> -18,6 +18,10 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); 
>>   * Pull in the reference implementations while instructing GCC 
>>   (through * -ftree-vectorize) to attempt to exploit implicit 
>>   parallelism and emit * NEON instructions. 
>> + 
> 
> Please tidy this up before submission; we normally continue the 
> "*" for blank lines in comment blocks. Thanks. 

Indeed, thank you. I will fix it if I don't replace this patch 
entirely with something similar to what Nick suggested.

Perhaps adding a checkpatch test for this is a good idea?

Adrian

>
>> + * On Clang the loop vectorizer is enabled by default, but due to a bug
>> + * (https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40976) vectorization is broke
>> + * so xor-neon is disabled in favor of the default reg implementations.
>>   */
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
>>  #pragma GCC optimize "tree-vectorize"
>> -- 
>> 2.29.0
>> 
>> 
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