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] This turns off function sections in that specific case, leaving it enabled for all other configurations. Fixes: b67067f1176d ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.with.foss@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: accidentally resend the same patch as before v3: send the exact same patch once more, without doing the change I wanted v4: actually fixed version number in check as pointed out by Namhyung Kim (I hope) --- Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6e7e644a0b84..3a964fa3a787 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -662,7 +662,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wextra KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,) ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION +ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-ifversion, -ge,0408,$(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,)) +else KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,) +endif KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fdata-sections,) endif -- 2.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html