This test will run on Linux, but all the kernels should run just fine. This does not test autodetection but then none of the other ARM tests do either.
Previously, this was a global variable. Setting the value was synchronized via a mutex but reading the value was not. Of course, these accesses are almost certainly atomic, but there is still the possibility of one thread attempting to set the value and then reading the value set by another thread. For correct operation under user threading (e.g. pthreads), this should probably be thread-local with no mutex.
Adds `--enable-rpath/--disable--rpath` (default disabled) to use an install_name starting with @rpath/. Otherwise, set the install_name to the absolute path of the install library, which was the previous behavior.
Details:
- Reworked support for ARM hardware detection in bli_cpuid.c to parse
the result of a CPUID-like instruction.
- Added a64fx support to bli_gks.c.
- #include arm64 and arm32 family headers from bli_arch_config.h.
- Fix the ordering of the "armsve" and "a64fx" strings in the
config_name string array in bli_arch.c. The ordering did not match
the ordering of the corresponding arch_t values in bli_type_defs.h,
as it should have all along.
- Added clang support to make_defs.mk in arm64, cortexa53, cortexa57
subconfigs.
- Updated arm64 and arm32 families in config_registry.
- Updated docs/HardwareSupport.md to reflect added ARM support.
- Thanks to Dave Love, RuQing Xu, and Devin Matthews for their
contributions in this PR (#344).
- RPATH entries (and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH) do nothing on macOS unless the install_name of the library starts with @rpath/. While the install_name can be set to the absolute install path, this makes the installation non-relocatable. When using @path in the install_name, install paths within the normal DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH work with no changes on the user side, but for install paths off the beaten track, users must specify an RPATH entry when linking (or modify DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime). Perhaps this could be made into a configure-time option.
- Having relocable testsuite binaries is not necessarily a priority but it is easy to do with @executable_path (macOS) or $ORIGIN (linux/BSD).
Details:
- Updated FAQ.md to include two new questions, reordered an existing
question, and also removed an outdated and redundant question about
BLIS vs. AMD BLIS.
- Updated Sandboxes.md to use 'gemmlike' as its main example, along with
other smaller details.
- Added ARM as a funder to README.md.
Details:
- Modified .travis.yml so that only commits to 'master', 'dev', and
'amd' branches get built by Travis CI. Thanks to Devin Matthews for
helping to track down the syntax for this change.
Details:
- Re-enabled the changes made in fb93d24.
- Defined BLIS_ENABLE_SYSTEM in bli_arch.c, bli_cpuid.c, and bli_env.c,
all of which needed the definition (in addition to config_detect.c) in
order for the configure-time hardware detection binary to be compiled
properly. Thanks to Minh Quan Ho for helping identify these additional
files as needing to be updated.
- Added additional comments to all four source files, most notably to
prompt the reader to remember to update all of the files when updating
any of the files. Also made the cpp code in each of the files as
consistent/similar as possible.
- Refer to issues #532 and PR #546 for more history.
