linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86: stack alignment for boot code and clang

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:58:48 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "H . J . Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Hines <srhines@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@...aro.org,
        Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>,
        Behan Webster <behanw@...verseincode.com>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86: stack alignment for boot code and clang


* Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org> wrote:

> This series fixes an issue with the stack of the x86 boot code not
> being aligned as intended. Further it adapts the Makefile to account
> for the fact that clang uses a different option to configure the
> stack alignment than gcc (-mstack-alignment=N vs
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=N)
> 
> Collaterally the series adds the new kbuild macro __cc-option and
> refactors the macros cc-option and hostcc-option to make use of
> __cc-option.
> 
> Matthias Kaehlcke (3):
>   kbuild: Add __cc-option macro
>   x86/build: Use __cc-option for boot code compiler options
>   x86/build: Specify stack alignment for clang
> 
>  Makefile               |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/Makefile      | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  scripts/Kbuild.include | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  scripts/Makefile.host  |  6 ------
>  4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

So given that there are non-trivial kbuild changes here, I'd suggest these patches 
might have a better home in the kbuild tree. For the x86 bits:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo