Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x

From: Jeff Mahoney
Date: Fri Oct 19 2018 - 18:00:01 EST


On 8/26/18 10:33 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
> bumped the minimum GCC version to 4.6 for all architectures.
>
> The workaround code in fs/reiserfs/Makefile is obsolete now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

-Jeff

> ---
>
> fs/reiserfs/Makefile | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/Makefile b/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
> index a39a562..bd29c58 100644
> --- a/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
> +++ b/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
> @@ -26,14 +26,5 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL),y)
> reiserfs-objs += xattr_acl.o
> endif
>
> -# gcc -O2 (the kernel default) is overaggressive on ppc32 when many inline
> -# functions are used. This causes the compiler to advance the stack
> -# pointer out of the available stack space, corrupting kernel space,
> -# and causing a panic. Since this behavior only affects ppc32, this ifeq
> -# will work around it. If any other architecture displays this behavior,
> -# add it here.
> -ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC32) := $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0400, -O1)
> -
> TAGS:
> etags *.c
> -
>

--
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs


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