On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:53 AM Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Old versions of gcc cannot compile 4.14 since 4.14.113:
>
> ./include/asm-generic/fixmap.h:37: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__builtin_unreachable’
>
> The stable commit that caused the problem is 82017e26e515 ("compiler.h:
> update definition of unreachable()") (upstream commit fe0640eb30b7).
> Reverting the commit fixes the problem.
>
> Kernel 4.17 dropped support for older versions of gcc in upstream commit
> cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6"). This
> was not backported to 4.14 since that would go against the stable kernel
> rules.
>
> Upstream commit 815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make
> compiler-*.h mutually exclusive") was a fix for cafa0010cd51. This was
> not backported to 4.14.
>
> Upstream commit fe0640eb30b7 ("compiler.h: update definition of
> unreachable()") was a fix for 815f0ddb346c. This is the commit that was
> backported to 4.14. But it only fixed a problem introduced in the other
> commits, and without those commits, it ends up introducing a problem
> instead of fixing one. So I recommend reverting that patch in 4.14,
> which will enable old gcc to compile 4.14 again. If I understand
> correctly, I believe that clang will still be able to compile 4.14 with
> the patch reverted, although I haven't tried to compile with clang.
>
> The problematic commit is not present in 4.9.x, 4.4.x, 3.18.x, or 3.16.x.
$ make CC=clang -j71 arch/x86/mm/fault.o
produces no objtool warning with upstream commit fe0640eb30b7 reverted.
x86 defconfig w/ Clang also have no issue with that reverted on 4.14.y.
Revert away.
Greg, Sasha,
Do you need a patch file for that, or can you please push a
$ cd linux-stable
$ git checkout 4.14.y
$ git revert 82017e26e51596ee577171a33f357377ec6513b5
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
