linux-kernel - [PATCH] reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:33:50 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x

Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
bumped the minimum GCC version to 4.6 for all architectures.

The workaround code in fs/reiserfs/Makefile is obsolete now.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

 fs/reiserfs/Makefile | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/Makefile b/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
index a39a562..bd29c58 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/Makefile
@@ -26,14 +26,5 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL),y)
 reiserfs-objs += xattr_acl.o
 endif
 
-# gcc -O2 (the kernel default)  is overaggressive on ppc32 when many inline
-# functions are used.  This causes the compiler to advance the stack
-# pointer out of the available stack space, corrupting kernel space,
-# and causing a panic. Since this behavior only affects ppc32, this ifeq
-# will work around it. If any other architecture displays this behavior,
-# add it here.
-ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC32) := $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0400, -O1)
-
 TAGS:
 	etags *.c
-
-- 
2.7.4