Re: Patches for -stable to improve support for recent gcc versions

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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 03:55:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 05/30/2018 02:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Greg,
> >>>
> >>> please apply the following patches.
> >>>
> >>> to v4.4-stable and older:
> >>>
> >>> cb36af3e48be sh: New gcc support
> >>>          to support gcc 8.1.0 for sh
> >>>
> >>> to v4.9-stable and older:
> >>>
> >>> 009615ab7fd4 USB: serial: cp210x: use tcflag_t to fix incompatible
> >>> pointer
> >>> type
> >>>          to support gcc 7.3.0 for sparc
> >>>
> >>> Copying Arnd - I can't get sparc images to compile with gcc 8.1.0. Any
> >>> idea
> >>
> >>
> >> No, sorry. I've just tried it again and couldn't find any problems with my
> >> gcc-8.1 binaries building either sparc32_defconfig or sparc64_defconfig.
> >>
> >
> > Interesting. With sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.1.0 from kernel.org:
> >
> > make ARCH=sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux- allmodconfig
> > make ARCH=sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-
> > arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.o
> >
> > results in:
> >
> > ./include/linux/syscalls.h:233:18: error:
> >         'sys_sparc64_personality' alias between functions of incompatible
> > types
> >         'long int(long unsigned int)' and 'long int(long int)'
> > [-Werror=attribute-alias]
> >
> > and many more.
> >
> > Presumably this is due to
> >
> > arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile:ccflags-y := -Werror
> 
> Right, I have disabled that warning locally, so I didn't get
> it despite the -Werror.
> 

Would it make sense to add
	KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-attribute-alias)
to the sparc Makefile ? It seems to fix the problem for me, and it would
be easier to backport than a more comprehensive fix.

Guenter



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