[PATCH] Disable -fconserve-stack on ARM

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat May 28 2011 - 11:35:12 EST


Here's a untested but straight forward patch to disable it.
-Andi

---

Disable -fconserve-stack on ARM

There are reports that -fconserve-stack misaligns variables on the stack.
Disable it for ARM to work around this gcc bug.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 25750bc..0883cff 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR),y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS +=-fstack-protector
endif

+# ARM gcc developers unfortunately broke -fconserve-stack. It misaligns
+# variables on the stack
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-conserve-stack)
+
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),y)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -mbig-endian
AS += -EB


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