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Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags

From Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags
Date 2017-04-05 21:20 +0200
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It "works" for the cases that I currently care about but I have to say
that I am uneasy about adding -Werror to the cc-option test in this
way.

Suppose that one of the *other* flags that is implicitly passed to the
compiler by cc-option - eg something that was explicitly specified in
$(KBUILD_CFLAGS) - triggers a warning. In that case all calls to
cc-option will silently fail because of the -Werror and valid options
will not be detected correctly.

If everyone is OK with that because "it shouldn't normally ever
happen" then that is fine, but if does result in a subtle change from
existing behavior (and a trap that I almost immediately fell into
after applying a similar patch).

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> El Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 03:08:26AM +0900 Masahiro Yamada ha dit:
>
>> 2017-03-17 9:15 GMT+09:00 Michael Davidson <md@google.com>:
>> > Unfortunately, while clang generates a warning about these flags
>> > being unsupported it still exits with a status of 0 so we have
>> > to explicitly disable them instead of just using a cc-option check.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
>>
>>
>> Instead, does the following work for you?
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9657285/
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I was about to give this change (or rather its
> ancestor) a rework myself :)
>
>> You need to use
>> $(call cc-option, ...)
>> for -falign-jumps=1 and -falign-loops=1
>
> I can confirm that this works.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matthias

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Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2017-04-05 20:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported  optimization flags Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> - 2017-04-05 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags Michael Davidson <md@google.com> - 2017-04-05 21:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2017-04-10 17:00 +0200

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