linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.19 and GCC 9

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:42:27 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>,
        Ivan Babrou <ivan@...udflare.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...udflare.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.19 and GCC 9

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:21 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > I also checked that 4.19.49 compiles fine with GCC 9, although with a
> > lot of warnings, mostly from objtool, like "warning: objtool:
> > sock_register()+0xd: sibling call from callable instruction with
> > modified stack frame". But it's a start.

I think Josh Poimboeuf added support for a few related things in GCC 8
(e.g. 13810435b9a7 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions")).

> I'll look into these after the next round of kernels are released.  I
> guess I'll go find a distro that has gcc9 on it to actually test
> things...

I typically compile a bare-bones GCC for those things, it is quite quick.

Cheers,
Miguel