The vector mode was deprecated in ARMv7-A/VFPv3 and various cpu
implementations do not support it in hardware. Vector mode code will
depending the OS either be emulated in software or result in an illegal
instruction on cpus which does not support it. This was not really
problem in practice since NEON implementations of the same functions are
preferred. It will however become a problem for checkasm which tests
every cpu flag separately.
Since this is a cpu feature newer cpu do not support anymore the
behaviour of this flag differs from the other flags. It can be only
activated by runtime cpu feature selection.
When all the codepaths using manually set .arch/.fpu code is
behind runtime detection, the elf attributes should be suppressed.
This allows tools to know that the final built binary doesn't
strictly require these extensions.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
add ARM code for implementing av_clip_intp2 using the ssat instruction
on Cortex-A8, av_clip_intp2_arm() is faster than av_clip_intp2_c() and
the generic av_clip(), about -19%
Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
I benchmarked the result by measuring the number of gperftools samples that
hit anywhere in the AAC decoder (starting from aac_decode_frame()) or
specifically in butterflies_float_c() / ff_butterflies_float_vfp() for the
same sample AAC stream:
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Confidence Change
Audio decode 1542.8 43.7 1470.5 41.5 100.0% +4.9%
butterflies_float 130.0 11.9 70.2 12.1 100.0% +85.2%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
I benchmarked the result by measuring the number of gperftools samples that
hit anywhere in the AAC decoder (starting from aac_decode_frame()) or
specifically in vector_fmul_window_c() / ff_vector_fmul_window_vfp() for the
same sample AAC stream:
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Confidence Change
Audio decode 1598.2 47.4 1529.2 25.4 100.0% +4.5%
vector_fmul_window 244.0 22.1 188.9 22.3 100.0% +29.2%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
When running on a 64 bit kernel, /proc/cpuinfo lists different
optional features than on 32 bit kernels (because some of them
are mandatory in the 64 bit implemenations).
The kernel does list the old features properly if they are queried
via /proc/self/auxv though - however this file is not always readable
(e.g. on most android systems). The getauxval function could also
provide the same info as /proc/self/auxv even if this file isn't
readable, but this function is not always available (and thus would
need to be loaded with dlsym for compatibility with older android
versions).
The android cpufeatures library does this slightly differently,
by assuming that these are available if the "CPU architecture"
line is >= 8, see [1] for details.
It has been suggested to include the old, non-optional features in
/proc/cpuinfo as well, but that suggested patch never was merged.
See [2] for the discussion around this suggestion.
[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/91380
[2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=139087240101974
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
If linking in an object file without this attribute set, the
linker will assume that an executable stack might be needed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This makes the generated assembly more internally consistent,
avoiding declaring two labels for the same function (for cases
where EXTERN_ASM is empty) and not declaring a separate unprefixed
label in other cases.
This also makes sure the .func and .type delcarations have the same
prefix. They have previously not been used on the platforms
that have prefixed symbols on arm (iOS), but gas-preprocessor
has recently started using the .func declarations for adding
.thumb_func declarations for such functions.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
The function macro always sets .align 2 before declaring the
function label (since 5c5e1ea3) and always sets the section to
.text (since 278caa6a).
The .align 5 before certain functions, added in fc252eba, were added
before .text and .align were added to the function macro and thus
became useless/unused when the function macro got them.
This restores the original intention, to align the loop entry
points.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This matches the other eabi attribute in the same file. This is
required in order to build for arm/hardfloat with other object
file formats than ELF.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
On recent android versions, /proc/self/auxw is unreadable
(unless the process is running running under the shell uid or
in debuggable mode, which makes it hard to notice). See
http://b.android.com/43055 and
https://android-review.googlesource.com/51271 for more information
about the issue.
This makes sure e.g. neon optimizations are enabled at runtime in
android apps even when built in release mode, if configured to
use the runtime detection.
CC: libav-stable@libav.org
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Now, nellymoserenc and aacenc no longer depends on dsputil. Independent
of this patch, wmaprodec also does not depend on dsputil, so I removed
it from there also.
This allows compiling optimised functions for features not enabled
in the core build and selecting these at runtime if the system has
the necessary support.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
This is consistent with usual ARM nomenclature as well as with the
VFPV3 and NEON symbols which both lack the ARM prefix.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
All our ARM asm preserves alignment so setting this attribute
in a common location is simpler. This removes numerous warnings
when linking with armcc.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
LDR with register offset and PC as base register is not available in
the Thumb instruction set so the addition must be done separately.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
When building Thumb2 code, the end of a function, where the PIC
offsets are placed, need not be aligned. Although the values
are only accessed with instructions allowing unaligned addresses,
keeping them aligned is preferable.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Fixed-point audio codecs often use saturating arithmetic, and
special instructions for these operations are common.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Some compilers do not support the Q/R modifiers used to access
the low/high parts of a 64-bit register pair. Check for this
and disable all uses of it when not supported.
Fixes bug #337.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
This creates proper position independent code when accessing
data symbols if CONFIG_PIC is set.
References to external symbols should now use the movrelx macro.
Some additional code changes are required since this macro may
need a register to hold the GOT pointer.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
