Hi Vineet, On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > commit a1c48bb160f8368 "Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line > options" moved ARCH specific cc option handling before common -Os/O2 setup. > > For ARC this had a subtle effect that we can no longer over-ride generic -O2 with > -O3, hence a performance regression observed going from 3.13 to 3.18 (the above > commit went into 3.16) > > I want to understand how to properly fix this. Moving the include of arch makefile > will bring back the old issue. I can introduce another option to set default optim > level, but only arc/m32r care about it anyways. Can we include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile twice? Or perhaps we can not apply the extra -O* if there's already a -O* option? Alternatively, as we already have CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, a(nother) Kconfig option may make sense. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html