linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed/64: Define __force_order only when CONFIG_RANDOMIZE

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Date:   Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:10:43 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed/64: Define __force_order only when
 CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is unset

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 07:18:13AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> Since arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile overrides global CFLAGS it loses
> -fno-common option which would have caught this

If this doesn't cause any visible problems, why bother?

Hopefully, we will be able to drop it altogether once we ditch GCC 4.X
support.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov