For PowerPC, GCC 5.2 is the requirement for GCC plugins. Move the
version check to Kconfig so that the GCC plugin menus will be hidden
if an older compiler is in use.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v5: None
Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3:
- Move comment to Kconfig as well
Changes in v2: None
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 8 --------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index c32a181..17e53e6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ config PPC
select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
- select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
+ select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS if GCC_VERSION >= 50200 # plugin support on gcc <= 5.1 is buggy on PPC
select HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS && (PPC_BOOK3S || PPC_8xx)
select HAVE_IDE
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
index 0ce3802..1e92353 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
@@ -53,14 +53,6 @@ gcc-plugins-check: FORCE
ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS
ifeq ($(PLUGINCC),)
ifneq ($(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS),)
- # Various gccs between 4.5 and 5.1 have bugs on powerpc due to missing
- # header files. gcc <= 4.6 doesn't work at all, gccs from 4.8 to 5.1 have
- # issues with 64-bit targets.
- ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
- ifeq ($(call cc-ifversion, -le, 0501, y), y)
- @echo "Cannot use CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS: plugin support on gcc <= 5.1 is buggy on powerpc, please upgrade to gcc 5.2 or newer" >&2 && exit 1
- endif
- endif
ifeq ($(call cc-ifversion, -ge, 0405, y), y)
$(Q)$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh --show-error "$(__PLUGINCC)" "$(HOSTCXX)" "$(CC)" || true
@echo "Cannot use CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS: your gcc installation does not support plugins, perhaps the necessary headers are missing?" >&2 && exit 1
--
2.7.4
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