[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "kernel: add support for gcc 5" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Oct 21 20:09:33 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    kernel: add support for gcc 5

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:51:05 -0700
Subject: kernel: add support for gcc 5

commit 71458cfc782eafe4b27656e078d379a34e472adf upstream.

We're missing include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h which is required now
because gcc branched off to v5 in trunk.

Just copy the relevant bits out of include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h,
no new code is added as of now.

This fixes a build error when using gcc 5.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdd1cc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
+#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc5.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
+#endif
+
+#define __used				__attribute__((__used__))
+#define __must_check			__attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+#define __compiler_offsetof(a, b)	__builtin_offsetof(a, b)
+
+/* Mark functions as cold. gcc will assume any path leading to a call
+   to them will be unlikely.  This means a lot of manual unlikely()s
+   are unnecessary now for any paths leading to the usual suspects
+   like BUG(), printk(), panic() etc. [but let's keep them for now for
+   older compilers]
+
+   Early snapshots of gcc 4.3 don't support this and we can't detect this
+   in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're unreleased.
+   Maketime probing would be overkill here.
+
+   gcc also has a __attribute__((__hot__)) to move hot functions into
+   a special section, but I don't see any sense in this right now in
+   the kernel context */
+#define __cold			__attribute__((__cold__))
+
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
+#ifndef __CHECKER__
+# define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
+# define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
+#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
+
+/*
+ * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to
+ * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
+ * control elsewhere.
+ *
+ * Early snapshots of gcc 4.5 don't support this and we can't detect
+ * this in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're
+ * unreleased.  Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
+ */
+#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
+
+/* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
+#define __noclone	__attribute__((__noclone__))
+
+/*
+ * Tell the optimizer that something else uses this function or variable.
+ */
+#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))
+
+/*
+ * GCC 'asm goto' miscompiles certain code sequences:
+ *
+ *   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
+ *
+ * Work it around via a compiler barrier quirk suggested by Jakub Jelinek.
+ * Fixed in GCC 4.8.2 and later versions.
+ *
+ * (asm goto is automatically volatile - the naming reflects this.)
+ */
+#define asm_volatile_goto(x...)	do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP */
--
1.9.1





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