2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jeff Dike commit 4f81c5350b44bcc501ab6f8a089b16d064b4d2f6 upstream There are various constraints on the use of unit-at-a-time: - i386 uses no-unit-at-a-time for pre-4.0 (not 4.3) - x86_64 uses unit-at-a-time always Uli reported a crash on x86_64 with gcc 4.1.2 with unit-at-a-time, resulting in commit c0a18111e571138747a98af18b3a2124df56a0d1 Ingo reported a gcc internal error with gcc 4.3 with no-unit-at-a-timem, resulting in 22eecde2f9034764a3fd095eecfa3adfb8ec9a98 Benny Halevy is seeing extern inlines not resolved with gcc 4.3 with no-unit-at-a-time This patch reintroduces unit-at-a-time for gcc >= 4.0, bringing back the possibility of Uli's crash. If that happens, we'll debug it. I started seeing both the internal compiler errors and unresolved inlines on Fedora 9. This patch fixes both problems, without so far reintroducing the crash reported by Uli. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Cc: Benny Halevy Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/um/Makefile | 1 - arch/um/Makefile-i386 | 7 +++++++ arch/um/Makefile-x86_64 | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/um/Makefile +++ b/arch/um/Makefile @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ include $(srctree)/$(ARCH_DIR)/Makefile- KERNEL_DEFINES = $(strip -Derrno=kernel_errno -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask \ -Dmktime=kernel_mktime $(ARCH_KERNEL_DEFINES)) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KERNEL_DEFINES) -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time,) PHONY += linux --- a/arch/um/Makefile-i386 +++ b/arch/um/Makefile-i386 @@ -32,4 +32,11 @@ cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred # an unresolved reference. cflags-y += -ffreestanding +# Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.0 compilers, it makes gcc use +# a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots. Also, gcc +# 4.3.0 needs -funit-at-a-time for extern inline functions. +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(call cc-version) -lt 0400 ] ; then \ + echo $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time); \ + else echo $(call cc-option,-funit-at-a-time); fi ;) + KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y) --- a/arch/um/Makefile-x86_64 +++ b/arch/um/Makefile-x86_64 @@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ HEADER_ARCH := x86 LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_DYN) += -Wl,-rpath,/lib64 LINK-y += -m64 + +# Do unit-at-a-time unconditionally on x86_64, following the host +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funit-at-a-time) -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/