On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 07:26:39PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
A couple of nitpicks:
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Do not add -falign flags unconditionally for clang
Make that prefix into "x86/build: "
> clang does not support -falign-jumps and only recently gained support
> for -falign-loops. When one of the configuration options that adds these
> flags is enabled, clang warns and all cc-{disable-warning,option} that
> follow fail because -Werror gets added to test for the presence of this
> warning:
>
> clang-14: warning: optimization flag '-falign-jumps=0' is not supported
> [-Wignored-optimization-argument]
>
> To resolve this, add a couple of cc-option calls when building with
> clang; gcc has supported these options since 3.2 so there is no point in
> testing for their support. -falign-functions was implemented in clang-7,
> -falign-loops was implemented in clang-14, and -falign-jumps has not
> been implemented yet.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YSQE2f5teuvKLkON@Ryzen-9-3900X.localdomain/
Also, there should be a second Link: tag which points to this mail
thread so that we can find it later, when we dig for the "why we did
that" question :)
I.e.,
Link: 20210824022640.2170859-2-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
with that:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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