linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove stale cc-option checks

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CANiq72=H4ofcSfD=scFa3moBBDf81h3fFKEd52-4Y8ZygANWWQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:41:23 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@...saru.org>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove stale cc-option checks

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:42 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> cc-option, cc-option-yn, and cc-disable-warning all invoke the compiler
> during build time, and can slow down the build when these checks become
> stale for our supported compilers, whose minimally supported versions
> increases over time. See Documentation/process/changes.rst for the
> current supported minimal versions (GCC 4.9+, clang 10.0.1+). Compiler
> version support for these flags may be verified on godbolt.org.

Always nice to see cleanups due to raised versions!

Shouldn't `--allow-store-data-races` have been on its own patch, though?

Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Cheers,
Miguel