From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:16:57 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ARM: Add a neon-intrinsics.h header like on arm64
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4156e65624f8a1816cad423ec005b336e280999d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

ARM: Add a neon-intrinsics.h header like on arm64

Add a header asm/neon-intrinsics.h similar to the one that arm64 has.
This makes it possible for NEON intrinsics code to be shared seamlessly
between ARM and arm64.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422171655.3437334-11-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/kernel_mode_neon.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/kernel_mode_neon.rst
index 9bfb71a2a9b96..1efb6d35b7bd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm/kernel_mode_neon.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/kernel_mode_neon.rst
@@ -121,4 +121,6 @@ observe the following in addition to the rules above:
 * Compile the unit containing the NEON intrinsics with '-ffreestanding' so GCC
   uses its builtin version of <stdint.h> (this is a C99 header which the kernel
   does not supply);
-* Include <arm_neon.h> last, or at least after <linux/types.h>
+* Do not include <arm_neon.h> directly: instead, include <asm/neon-intrinsics.h>,
+  which tweaks some macro definitions so that system headers can be included
+  safely.
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8b80c05ce1d7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/neon-intrinsics.h
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_NEON_INTRINSICS_H
+#define __ASM_NEON_INTRINSICS_H
+
+#ifndef __ARM_NEON__
+#error You should compile this file with '-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon'
+#endif
+
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
+
+/*
+ * The C99 types uintXX_t that are usually defined in 'stdint.h' are not as
+ * unambiguous on ARM as you would expect. For the types below, there is a
+ * difference on ARM between GCC built for bare metal ARM, GCC built for glibc
+ * and the kernel itself, which results in build errors if you try to build
+ * with -ffreestanding and include 'stdint.h' (such as when you include
+ * 'arm_neon.h' in order to use NEON intrinsics)
+ *
+ * As the typedefs for these types in 'stdint.h' are based on builtin defines
+ * supplied by GCC, we can tweak these to align with the kernel's idea of those
+ * types, so 'linux/types.h' and 'stdint.h' can be safely included from the
+ * same source file (provided that -ffreestanding is used).
+ *
+ *                    int32_t     uint32_t          intptr_t     uintptr_t
+ * bare metal GCC     long        unsigned long     int          unsigned int
+ * glibc GCC          int         unsigned int      int          unsigned int
+ * kernel             int         unsigned int      long         unsigned long
+ */
+
+#ifdef __INT32_TYPE__
+#undef __INT32_TYPE__
+#define __INT32_TYPE__		int
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __UINT32_TYPE__
+#undef __UINT32_TYPE__
+#define __UINT32_TYPE__		unsigned int
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __INTPTR_TYPE__
+#undef __INTPTR_TYPE__
+#define __INTPTR_TYPE__		long
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __UINTPTR_TYPE__
+#undef __UINTPTR_TYPE__
+#define __UINTPTR_TYPE__	unsigned long
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * genksyms chokes on the ARM NEON instrinsics system header, but we
+ * don't export anything it defines anyway, so just disregard when
+ * genksyms execute.
+ */
+#ifndef __GENKSYMS__
+#include <arm_neon.h>
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __ASM_NEON_INTRINSICS_H */