Re: [PATCH] bug.h: Work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()

[James Hogan]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:08:51PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:54 AM, James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 09:30:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:48 AM, James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Before I forward port those patches to add .insn for MIPS, is that sort
> >> > of approach (an arch specific asm/compiler-gcc.h to allow MIPS to
> >> > override barrier_before_unreachable()) an acceptable fix?
> >>
> >> That sounds fine to me. However, I would suggest making that
> >> asm/compiler.h instead of asm/compiler-gcc.h, so we can also
> >> use the same file to include workarounds for clang if needed.
> >
> > Yes, though there are a few asm/compiler.h's already, and the alpha one
> > includes linux/compiler.h before undefining inline, so seems to have its
> > own specific purpose...
> 
> Interesting. For the other ones, including asm/compiler.h from linux/compiler.h
> seems appropriate though, so the question would be what to do with the
> alpha case. I think we can simply remove that header file and replace
> it with this patch:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> index b2022885ced8..5502404f54cd 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
> @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ config PGTABLE_LEVELS
>         int
>         default 3
> 
> +config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
> +       def_bool y
> +
>  source "init/Kconfig"
>  source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
> 
> which should have the same effect.

Hmm yes, and I suppose alpha would need ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING
too. I'll give it a try.

Cheers
James

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature