Re: [PATCH] kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and -pg on gcc-4.7

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sun Apr 23 2017 - 02:54:12 EST


2017-04-14 15:17 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Arnd Bergmann reported:
> "When ftrace is enabled and we build with gcc-4.7 or older, we
> get a warning for each file on architectures that select
> CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION:
>
> warning: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible [enabled by default]
> "
>
> Since commit c3f0d0bc5b01 ("kbuild, LLVMLinux: Add -Werror to
> cc-option to support clang"), warnings are treated as errors in
> cc-option checks. CC_FLAGS_FTRACE is blindly added to KBUILD_CFLAGS,
> so $(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,) should be moved below it
> in order to detect the conflict between the two options.
>
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada