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

[Luca Boccassi]

Hi,

Yes, it's part of your patch. Probably some build files machinery
missing. I do not have a ppc setup either.

On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 11:27 +0000, Ori Kam wrote:
> 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 at debian.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 1:07 PM
> > To: Ori Kam <orika at mellanox.com>; David Christensen
> > <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Qi Zhang
> > <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> > <shahafs at mellanox.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>;
> > Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>; Tiwei Bie
> > <tiwei.bie at intel.com>; Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com>
> > Cc: stable at 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]
> > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmails.dpd
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> > f4a48b032b46dbb97408d8061390af%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b
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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