When clang's -Qunused-arguments is dropped from KBUILD_CPPFLAGS, it warns: clang-16: error: argument unused during compilation: '-s' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] The compiler's '-s' flag is a linking option (it is passed along to the linker directly), which means it does nothing when the linker is not invoked by the compiler. The kernel builds all .o files with '-c', which stops the compilation pipeline before linking, so '-s' can be safely dropped from ASFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Cc: mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: npiggin@xxxxxxxxx Cc: christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx As I mentioned before, it is possible that we should add '-s' to ldflags-y in the following patch but I assume someone would have noticed by now if that was a problem. --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile index 6a977b0d8ffc..45c0cc5d34b6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ ccflags-y := -shared -fno-common -fno-builtin -nostdlib -Wl,--hash-style=both ccflags-$(CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD) += $(call cc-option,--ld-path=$(LD),-fuse-ld=lld) CC32FLAGS := -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso32.so.1 -m32 -AS32FLAGS := -D__VDSO32__ -s +AS32FLAGS := -D__VDSO32__ CC64FLAGS := -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso64.so.1 -AS64FLAGS := -D__VDSO64__ -s +AS64FLAGS := -D__VDSO64__ targets += vdso32.lds CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds += -P -C -Upowerpc -- 2.39.0