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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:03 +0100
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] Documentation: Bump minimum GCC version to 8.1
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 05:01:02PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
>
> Bump the minimum GCC version to 8.1 to gain unconditional support for
> referring to the per-task stack cookie using a symbol rather than
> relying on the fixed offset of 40 bytes from %GS, which requires
> elaborate hacks to support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
I'd like this for arm64 and others too (for unconditional support for
-fpatchable-function-entry), so FWIW:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
I think you'll want to update scripts/min-tool-version.sh too; judging
by the diff in the cover letter that's not handled elsehere in the
series.
Mark.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
> index f2bebff6a733..3dda41923ed6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Configuring the kernel
> Compiling the kernel
> --------------------
>
> - - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available.
> + - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available.
> For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`.
>
> - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index 00f1ed7c59c3..59b7d3d8a577 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
> ====================== =============== ========================================
> Program Minimal version Command to check the version
> ====================== =============== ========================================
> -GNU C 5.1 gcc --version
> +GNU C 8.1 gcc --version
> Clang/LLVM (optional) 13.0.1 clang --version
> Rust (optional) 1.78.0 rustc --version
> bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version
> --
> 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
>
>
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