Re: [PATCH 1/2] um: remove -fno-unit-at-a-time workaround for pre-4.0 GCC

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sat Dec 08 2018 - 14:19:51 EST


Hi Richard,

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 5:55 PM Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2018, 07:35:47 CET schrieb Masahiro Yamada:
> > x86 maintainers,
> >
> >
> > Ping.
>
> I thought you carry this via your kbuild tree.
> That said, I can merge it also via the um tree.
> x86 is of course also fine. :-)


The second patch also touches x86 Makefiles.

So, I think both should be applied to x86 tree.

Thanks.




> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 6:48 PM Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Am Montag, 12. November 2018, 03:35:19 CET schrieb Masahiro Yamada:
> > > > Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
> > > > bumped the minimum GCC version to 4.6 for all architectures.
> > > >
> > > > '$(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time)' is now dead code since
> > > > '$(cc-version) -lt 0400' is always false.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > arch/x86/Makefile.um | 8 ++------
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile.um b/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> > > > index 91085a0..577976b 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile.um
> > > > @@ -26,12 +26,8 @@ cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2)
> > > > # an unresolved reference.
> > > > cflags-y += -ffreestanding
> > > >
> > > > -# Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.0 compilers, it makes gcc use
> > > > -# a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots. Also, gcc
> > > > -# 4.3.0 needs -funit-at-a-time for extern inline functions.
> > > > -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(cc-version) -lt 0400 ] ; then \
> > > > - echo $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time); \
> > > > - else echo $(call cc-option,-funit-at-a-time); fi ;)
> > > > +# gcc 4.3.0 needs -funit-at-a-time for extern inline functions.
> > > > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funit-at-a-time)
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> //richard
>
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada