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    Subject[PATCH] kbuild: Remove gcc 4.1.0 quirk from init/main.c

    * Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

    > On Friday 02 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > >
    > > * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    > >
    > > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    > > > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:22:53 -0800 (PST)
    > > >
    > > > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Adrian claimed that it was gcc-4.1.0 and 4.1.1 only. He proposed
    > > > > > banning them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/5/444
    > > > >
    > > > > If it really is just those releases, then yes, considering the number
    > > > > of cases we apparently have, and considering how ugly it is in some
    > > > > cases to move the weak function anywhere else, maybe banning those
    > > > > versions is the proper thing to do.
    > > > >
    > > > > It probably won't hurt very many people - yeah, some people will be
    > > > > forced to upgrade, but I have this memory of early 4.1 having had
    > > > > other bugs anyway, so it's probably a good idea.
    > > >
    > > > I think this is probably the best way to handle this.
    > >
    > > okay - to move this matter from the discussion-space to the
    > > solution-space, how about the patch below? (tested on x86 with a
    > > non-affected compiler version.)
    >
    > ...or we can just merge Adrian's patch from June 2008 which also fixes
    > the issue nicely.

    didnt know about that patch, but yeah, sure.

    > OTOH your patch has an advantage of addressing the problem in the more
    > appropriate place (include/linux/compiler.h) and from what I see allows
    > us to remove previous gcc 4.1.0 check from init/main.c?

    Good spotting - find followup cleanup patch below.

    Ingo

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    From d23cbaaa342e5555a919a543095d656415a55950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:16:16 +0100
    Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: Remove gcc 4.1.0 quirk from init/main.c

    Impact: cleanup

    We now have a cleaner check for gcc 4.1.0/4.1.1 trouble in
    include/linux/compiler.h, so remove the 4.1.0 quirk from
    init/main.c.

    Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    ---
    init/main.c | 9 ---------
    1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
    index 2a7ce0f..5ced153 100644
    --- a/init/main.c
    +++ b/init/main.c
    @@ -75,15 +75,6 @@
    #include <asm/smp.h>
    #endif

    -/*
    - * This is one of the first .c files built. Error out early if we have compiler
    - * trouble.
    - */
    -
    -#if __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ == 0
    -#warning gcc-4.1.0 is known to miscompile the kernel. A different compiler version is recommended.
    -#endif
    -
    static int kernel_init(void *);

    extern void init_IRQ(void);

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