linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

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Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:41:26 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:57:39AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> Yeah, Peter and I have been discussing something like the below
> yesterday. I don't like the additional exports too much but would
> disable stack protector only for the one function...

I did do promise you bike-shedding... so here goes :-)

> -obj-$(CONFIG_SMP)		+= smpboot.o
> +
> +nostackprot := $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
> +CFLAGS_smpboot_aux.o := $(nostackprot)
> +
> +smpboot_all-y			:= smpboot.o smpboot_aux.o

So how about we call that file: smpboot_nostack.c or, since it only has
the one function in: start_secondary.c ?