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Re: [PATCH] kbuild: disable -ffunction-sections on gcc-4.7 with ftrace

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Hi,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> When ftrace is enabled and we build with gcc-4.7 or older, we
> get a warning for each file on architectures that select
> CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION:
>
> warning: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible [enabled by default]
>
> This turns off function sections in that specific case, leaving
> it enabled for all other configurations.
>
> Fixes: b67067f1176d ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 4fb4b889c862..7dfd0aa4f3f7 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -638,7 +638,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS      += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,)
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
> +ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-ifversion, -ge,0409,$(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,))

s/0409/0408/ ?

Thanks,
Namhyung


> +else
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,)
> +endif
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,-fdata-sections,)
>  endif
>
> --
> 2.9.0
>

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[PATCH] kbuild: disable -ffunction-sections on gcc-4.7 with ftrace Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-12-16 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kbuild: disable -ffunction-sections on gcc-4.7 with ftrace Namhyung Kim <namhyung.with.foss@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 15:20 +0100

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