Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 19.11] eal/ppc: fix bool type after altivec include

[Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>]

Hi Luca,
Off list.

Can you please see that the rte_altivec.h file was added?
I don't have a setup with ppc. 

Thanks,
Ori


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 1:07 PM
> To: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; David Christensen
> <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Qi Zhang
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> Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; Tiwei Bie
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> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 19.11] eal/ppc: fix bool type after altivec include
> 
> On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 15:36 +0000, Ori Kam wrote:
> > [ upstream commit f5bf02df3145f95b1ee8ed9dee67f4222ac42c8c ]
> >
> > The AltiVec header file breaks boolean type. [1] [2]
> >
> > Currently the workaround was located only in mlx5 device.
> > Adding the trace module caused this issue to appear again, due to
> > order of includes, it keeps overriding the local fix.
> >
> > This patch solves this issue by resetting the bool type, immediately
> > after it is being changed.
> >
> > [1]
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> This patch breaks all ppc64 builds:
> 
> [  136s] In file included from /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-
> 1591003733.2dff15dd5/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c:27:
> [  136s] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-1591003733.2dff15dd5/ppc_64-
> power8-linux-gcc/include/rte_memcpy.h:12:10: fatal error: rte_altivec.h: No
> such file or directory
> [  136s]  #include "rte_altivec.h"
> 
> --
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi