[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp, ld, c}flags" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt16.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4a9e44d553883de66707cb55fc6066a1b1f28cda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:19:30 +0200
Subject: kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags

commit 61754c18752ffb78145671e94f053fb202fff041 upstream.

Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command
line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main
Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler
option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to
fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and
ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild
variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS
and KCFLAGS variables.

Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1 at synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 8 ++++++++
 Makefile                           | 9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index c600e2f44a62..a2b03386e239 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -976,6 +976,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
 	mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).

+    ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS, ARCH_CFLAGS   Overrides the kbuild defaults
+
+	These variables are appended to the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS,
+	KBUILD_AFLAGS, and KBUILD_CFLAGS, respectively, after the
+	top-level Makefile has set any other flags. This provides a
+	means for an architecture to override the defaults.
+
+
 --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archheaders:

 	The archheaders: rule is used to generate header files that
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7fb85a24d17c..4e65f785f562 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -755,10 +755,11 @@ endif

 include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn

-# Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
-KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KCPPFLAGS)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(KAFLAGS)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KCFLAGS)
+# Add any arch overrides and user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the
+# last assignments
+KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(ARCH_CPPFLAGS) $(KCPPFLAGS)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(ARCH_AFLAGS)   $(KAFLAGS)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(ARCH_CFLAGS)   $(KCFLAGS)

 # Use --build-id when available.
 LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\