[PATCH 4.20 060/111] kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 21 2019 - 09:19:40 EST


4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>

commit 16fd20aa98080c2fa666dc384036ec08c80af710 upstream.

When building using GCC 4.7 or older, -ffunction-sections & the -pg flag
used by ftrace are incompatible. This causes warnings or build failures
(where -Werror applies) such as the following:

arch/mips/generic/init.c:
error: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible

This used to be taken into account by the ordering of calls to cc-option
from within the top-level Makefile, which was introduced by commit
90ad4052e85c ("kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and
-pg on gcc-4.7"). Unfortunately this was broken when the
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION cc-option check was moved to
Kconfig in commit e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination
support in Kconfig"), because the flags used by this check no longer
include -pg.

Fix this by not allowing CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be
enabled at the same time as ftrace/CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER when building
using GCC 4.7 or older.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
init/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1130,6 +1130,7 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
depends on EXPERT
+ depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)
depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
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