Some older compilers e.g. gcc 8.5, do not support overriding -march=native with another architecture, leading to build warnings such as reported in Bugzilla (link below). Add a check for that case, and explicitly add the avx512 flags if necessary.
Note: it appears that it is only the "native" flag that isn't overridden, which makes the issue hard to reproduce e.g. using godbolt.org, or on a modern machine. For example, testing with gcc 8.5 on a haswell machine, using 'native' vs explicit 'haswell': gcc -march=native -march=skylake-avx512 -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep AVX512 | wc -l 0 gcc -march=haswell -march=skylake-avx512 -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep AVX512 | wc -l 5 Bugzilla ID: 1736 Fixes: e361ae3f59d3 ("build: reduce use of AVX compiler flags") Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- V3: fix build when using meson 0.57 which doesn't flatten the sub-arrays V2: fix commit log --- config/x86/meson.build | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/config/x86/meson.build b/config/x86/meson.build index e2ccfb6d12..bd135eb02d 100644 --- a/config/x86/meson.build +++ b/config/x86/meson.build @@ -67,26 +67,31 @@ if is_linux or cc.get_id() == 'gcc' endif endif -avx512_march_flag = '-march=x86-64-v4' +avx512_march_flag = ['-march=x86-64-v4'] if not cc.has_argument(avx512_march_flag) - avx512_march_flag = '-march=skylake-avx512' + avx512_march_flag = ['-march=skylake-avx512'] +endif +# workaround for older compilers, e.g. gcc 8.5 on RHEL 8. +# if march flag overriding doesn't work, explicitly add flags for AVX512. +if cc.get_define('__AVX512F__', args: machine_args + avx512_march_flag) == '' + avx512_march_flag = ['-mavx512f', '-mavx512bw', '-mavx512cd', '-mavx512dq', '-mavx512vl'] endif cc_avx512_flags = [] -if (binutils_ok and cc.has_argument(avx512_march_flag) +if (binutils_ok and cc.has_multi_arguments(avx512_march_flag) and '-mno-avx512f' not in get_option('c_args')) # check if compiler is working with _mm512_extracti64x4_epi64 # Ref: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82887 code = '''#include <immintrin.h> void test(__m512i zmm){ __m256i ymm = _mm512_extracti64x4_epi64(zmm, 0);}''' - result = cc.compiles(code, args : [avx512_march_flag], name : 'AVX512 checking') + result = cc.compiles(code, args : avx512_march_flag, name : 'AVX512 checking') if result == false machine_args += '-mno-avx512f' warning('Broken _mm512_extracti64x4_epi64, disabling AVX512 support') else cc_has_avx512 = true if cc.get_define('__AVX512F__', args: machine_args) == '' - cc_avx512_flags = [avx512_march_flag] + cc_avx512_flags = avx512_march_flag if cc.has_argument('-Wno-overriding-option') cc_avx512_flags += '-Wno-overriding-option' endif -- 2.48.1