Move ARM Linux workflows to GitHub Actions

[alexreinking]

I had Codex write the initial workflow for testing on ARM Linux, based on the master.cfg from the buildbots and from looking at the logs from a real run. It's probably a little wrong, but I can fix it up.

[alexreinking]

There appears to be a real bug in how LLVM handles float16 constants on ARM32. It results in a misalignment of the constant pool that manifests as an illegal instruction. A salient part from my transcript:

The FP16 instructions are working perfectly:

vldr.16 s0, [pc, #404]
vmov.f16 s2, #224
vcvt.f16.s32 s4, s4
vfma.f16 s6, s4, s0
vstr.16 s6, [r7]

The crash is from bl 0xee1d53a4 at 0xee1d51e4 — and 0xee1d53a4 is in the constant pool (the hex dump confirms it's data). Multiple tail-call branches (b 0xee1d53ac, b 0xee1d53b4, b 0xee1d53bc, bl 0xee1d53c4) all go into the same data region.

The mov r1, lr; bl; cmp r0, #0; bne pattern looks like a Halide runtime call (feature check or allocation). The data at the targets shows a repeating pattern — every other word is 0xf004ee1d — which looks like corrupted 8-byte JIT stubs. If I byte-shift the data by 2, each pair decodes as LDR PC, [PC, #-4] (0xe51ff004) + a function address (0xee1dXXXX). This suggests the constant pool is 2 bytes too short, shifting all subsequent stubs by 2 bytes.

This is likely an LLVM ARM32 constant island pass bug where a 16-bit vldr.16 constant pool entry causes misalignment. This is not something our Halide changes can fix — it's an LLVM backend issue.

Want to file this upstream, or should we look for a Halide-level workaround (e.g., avoiding vldr.16 literal pool entries on ARM32)?

[abadams]

From the tests, it looks like we should just say we only support sve2 from llvm 22 up, because user code is going to hit assertion failures.

[alexreinking]

From the tests, it looks like we should just say we only support sve2 from llvm 22 up, because user code is going to hit assertion failures.

Since a few other PRs depend on this, and both the new and old ARM workflows are green, I will do this (and fix the typo) in a follow-up PR.