linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.3-rc3

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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:58:41 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.3-rc3

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Also, a great many of the failures are due to the build toolchain not
> > supporting -fstack-protector-strong.  I think it's absolutely right
> > for the build to error out if you enable a kernel feature which requires
> > toolchain support, but the toolchain does not support that feature.
> >
> > What this means is that the build results from kissb are less than
> > useful - without spending ages looking at every single build, it's
> > hard to find the real failures we care about.
> >
> > I'd suggest that either the randconfig is seeded to ensure that
> > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is always disabled in ARM randconfigs,
> > or that the ARM toolchain is updated to support this feature.
> 
> Or that it's impossible to enable this feature if your toolchain doesn't
> support it?

I think that would require kconfig to call out to the compiler to run
a test build.  This kind of thing has been talked about in the past
but the feature never seems to appear - probably because it would end
up increasing the kconfig startup time in every case.

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