linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/build: Move '-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix' out of GCC-only block

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Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:54:11 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/build: Move '-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix' out of GCC-only block

LLVM 16 will have support for this flag so move it out of the GCC-only
block to allow LLVM builds to take advantage of it.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1665
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/6f867f9102838ebe314c1f3661fdf95700386e5a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---

I was not sure if this information is relevant for the commit message
but I can boot without any issues on my test machines (two Intel and one
AMD).

 arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 7854685c5f25..987da87c7778 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
 RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	:= $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register)
-RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix)
 RETPOLINE_VDSO_CFLAGS	:= $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-inline -mindirect-branch-register)
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	:= -mretpoline-external-thunk
 RETPOLINE_VDSO_CFLAGS	:= -mretpoline
 endif
+RETPOLINE_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch-cs-prefix)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_RETHUNK
 RETHUNK_CFLAGS		:= -mfunction-return=thunk-extern

base-commit: 568035b01cfb107af8d2e4bd2fb9aea22cf5b868
-- 
2.37.2