linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:00:03 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, bp@...en8.de,
	luto@...capital.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL()

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:32:00AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:01:49AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > The setup for LTO never made it upstream, and although this has
> > some users, this is now really old stuff for a gcc 4.7 LTO problem.
> > We know that at least LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() work around can
> > be removed if LTO is not supported on v4.7 anymore.
> > 
> > As per Andi the DISABLE_LTO and LTO_CFLAGS are still neeeded though.
> 
> Looks good. Thanks
> 
> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

This is not yet merged but since it makes more sense in the
context of linker tables I'm going to fold this patch into
that series and post today.

  Luis