2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds commit a137802ee839ace40079bebde24cfb416f73208a upstream. This causes kernel images that don't run init to completion with certain broken gcc versions. This fixes kernel bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13012 I suspect the gcc problem is this: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28230 Fix the problem by using the -fno-strict-overflow flag instead, which not only does not exist in the known-to-be-broken versions of gcc (it was introduced later than fwrapv), but seems to be much less disturbing to gcc too: the difference in the generated code by -fno-strict-overflow are smaller (compared to using neither flag) than when using -fwrapv. Reported-by: Barry K. Nathan Pushed-by: Frans Pop Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdecl KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,) # disable invalid "can't wrap" optimizations for signed / pointers -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fwrapv) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-strict-overflow) # revert to pre-gcc-4.4 behaviour of .eh_frame KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm) -- 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/