linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/46] kbuild: pass jobserver to cmd_ld

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:36:08 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Martin Liska <mliska@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/46] kbuild: pass jobserver to cmd_ld_vmlinux.o

On 14. 11. 22, 18:57, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 8:44 PM Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
>>
>> Until the link-vmlinux.sh split (cf. the commit below), the linker was
>> run with jobserver set in MAKEFLAGS. After the split, the command in
>> Makefile.vmlinux_o is not prefixed by "+" anymore, so this information
>> is lost.
>>
>> Restore it as linkers working in parallel (namely gcc LTO) make a use of
>> it. Actually, they complain, if jobserver is not set:
>>    lto-wrapper: warning: jobserver is not available: '--jobserver-auth=' is not present in 'MAKEFLAGS'
>>
>> Fixes: 5d45950dfbb1 (kbuild: move vmlinux.o link to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o)
> 
> 
> This Fixes is wrong since GCC LTO is not in upstream code.

Yup, this is a left-over. Now dropped from both.

thanks,
-- 
js