linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.18-rc6

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:18:45 +0200
From:   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.18-rc6

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:17:22 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:23 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> >  
> > >
> > > Martin - can we just remove the
> > >
> > >          select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> > >
> > > from the s390 Kconfig file (or perhaps add "if BROKEN" or something to
> > > disable it).
> > >
> > > Because if it's not getting fixed, it shouldn't be exposed.
> > >  
> > The problem only affects 4.18 - the code has been rearranged in -next.
> > Only, in my builders, I can't disable a flag for individual releases,
> > so I just disabled it completely for s390.  
> 
> Well, I'm not going to release a 4.18 with a known problem, so in 4.18
> this *will* be disabled if it's not fixed.
> 
> The fact that it might be fixed in linux-next is entirely immaterial
> to the release of 4.18.

Ok, if gcc with the plugins and an allmodconfig is considered to be
important enough to warrant a fix, it can be pulled from here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git for-linus

Martin Schwidefsky (1):
      s390: disable gcc plugins

Once that is in I will create another patch to undo this one and place
it after the early boot rework.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.