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From: "Laatz, Kevin" <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Kinsella, Ray" <ray.kinsella@intel.com>,
	"nhorman@tuxdriver.com" <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal/cpuflags: add x86 based cpu flags
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:31:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6153f5b177d148f383779791a76edd5c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484d2d27-10d0-9e6a-c525-ee05b82e905c@ashroe.eu>

 
> (replying this time to the list)
> 
> On 25/04/2020 17:04, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 16/04/2020 13:00, Kevin Laatz:
> >> This patch adds CPU flags which will enable the detection of ISA
> >> features available on more recent x86 based CPUs.
> > [...]
> >> --- a/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> >> +++ b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> >> +; Ignore this enum update as it should not be allocated by the
> >> +application [suppress_type]
> >> +	type_kind = enum
> >> +	name = rte_cpu_flag_t
> >> +	changed_enumerators = RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS
> >
> > The justification is not correct.
> > The application is allowed to use RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS in array
> allocation.
> > But no API is returning a CPU flag, so the new flags will remain
> > unknown to the application.
> >
> > However, there is a behaviour change:
> > The functions rte_cpu_get_flag_name() and rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled()
> > will now accept new values, which were previously considered as an error.
> > Is it an ABI breakage? I would say no.
> 
> We saw something similar with the Cryptodev's rte_crypto_sym_xform_type
> also.
> Libabigail appears to be particularly sensitive to changes to enumerations.
> Leaving it to the user to decide if there is a problem.
> 
> I am seeing a bit of weirdness though between versions of libabigail.
> 1.7.1 seems to fine with the change, however 1.2 is reporting an issue.
> 
> Kevin - what version are you using?

I'm using version 1.6.0

> 
> >
> > PS: Who is REALLY maintaining the ABI?
> > We really miss someone who carefully check all these things, and take
> > care of the doc and tooling.
> >
> >
> 
> I would say that I am missing these changes to libabigail.ignore, which would
> be useful.
> Should we consolidate the ABI Policy and ABI Versioning sections of the
> MAINTAINERS file?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-27  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 11:49 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/17] Add CPU flags Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 doubleword and quadword Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 integer fused multiply-add Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 conflict detection Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 byte and word Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector length Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector bit manipulation Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector bit manipulation 2 Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/17] eal/cpuflags: add galois field new instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/17] eal/cpuflags: add vector AES Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/17] eal/cpuflags: add vector carry-less multiply Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector neural network instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 bit algorithms Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector popcount Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/17] eal/cpuflags: add cache line demote Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 15/17] eal/cpuflags: add direct store instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 16/17] eal/cpuflags: add direct store instructions 64B Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 17/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 two register intersection Kevin Laatz
2020-03-25  8:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/17] Add CPU flags David Marchand
2020-03-25 11:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/cpuflags: add x86 based cpu flags Kevin Laatz
2020-03-27 12:24   ` David Marchand
2020-03-27 13:18     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-27 15:04       ` David Marchand
2020-03-27 13:44     ` Neil Horman
2020-03-27 14:15       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-27 14:32         ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-27 14:36           ` Ray Kinsella
2020-03-27 15:19             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-30 12:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-16 10:08     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-04-16 11:00     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-25 16:04       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27  9:22         ` Kinsella, Ray
2020-04-27  9:27         ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-27  9:31           ` Laatz, Kevin [this message]
2020-04-27  9:35             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-27 10:08               ` Laatz, Kevin
2020-04-27 12:31           ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27 13:58             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-29 11:22               ` Neil Horman
2020-04-30  7:59                 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-28 12:40       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-28 16:39         ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-28 18:11           ` Laatz, Kevin
2020-04-28 19:55             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-28 19:58           ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-29 11:39           ` David Marchand
2020-04-30 10:02             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-07 13:00               ` Thomas Monjalon

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