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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/compiler_types.h, branch v5.12.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-v5.11' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T18:47:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-04T18:47:38+00:00</published>
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Pull ENABLE_MUST_CHECK removal from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK (Masahiro Yamada)"

Note that this removes the config option by making the must-check
unconditional, not by removing must check itself.

* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-v5.11' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
  Compiler Attributes: remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
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Pull ENABLE_MUST_CHECK removal from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK (Masahiro Yamada)"

Note that this removes the config option by making the must-check
unconditional, not by removing must check itself.

* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-v5.11' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
  Compiler Attributes: remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-cleanup-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T07:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T07:41:19+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a couple of compiler warning fixes to make 'make W=2' less
  noisy, as well as some fixes to code comments in asm-generic"

* tag 'asm-generic-cleanup-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  syscalls: Fix file comments for syscalls implemented in kernel/sys.c
  ctype.h: remove duplicate isdigit() helper
  qspinlock: use signed temporaries for cmpxchg
  asm-generic: fix ffs -Wshadow warning
  asm-generic: percpu: avoid Wshadow warning
  asm-generic/sembuf: Update architecture related information in comment
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<pre>
Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a couple of compiler warning fixes to make 'make W=2' less
  noisy, as well as some fixes to code comments in asm-generic"

* tag 'asm-generic-cleanup-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  syscalls: Fix file comments for syscalls implemented in kernel/sys.c
  ctype.h: remove duplicate isdigit() helper
  qspinlock: use signed temporaries for cmpxchg
  asm-generic: fix ffs -Wshadow warning
  asm-generic: percpu: avoid Wshadow warning
  asm-generic/sembuf: Update architecture related information in comment
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK</title>
<updated>2020-12-02T12:47:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-28T19:33:35+00:00</published>
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Revert commit cebc04ba9aeb ("add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK").

A lot of warn_unused_result warnings existed in 2006, but until now
they have been fixed thanks to people doing allmodconfig tests.

Our goal is to always enable __must_check where appropriate, so this
CONFIG option is no longer needed.

I see a lot of defconfig (arch/*/configs/*_defconfig) files having:

    # CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is not set

I did not touch them for now since it would be a big churn. If arch
maintainers want to clean them up, please go ahead.

While I was here, I also moved __must_check to compiler_attributes.h
from compiler_types.h

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
[Moved addition in compiler_attributes.h to keep it sorted]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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Revert commit cebc04ba9aeb ("add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK").

A lot of warn_unused_result warnings existed in 2006, but until now
they have been fixed thanks to people doing allmodconfig tests.

Our goal is to always enable __must_check where appropriate, so this
CONFIG option is no longer needed.

I see a lot of defconfig (arch/*/configs/*_defconfig) files having:

    # CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is not set

I did not touch them for now since it would be a big churn. If arch
maintainers want to clean them up, please go ahead.

While I was here, I also moved __must_check to compiler_attributes.h
from compiler_types.h

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
[Moved addition in compiler_attributes.h to keep it sorted]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Don't rely on GCC __attribute__((optimize)) to disable GCSE</title>
<updated>2020-10-30T03:01:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-28T17:15:05+00:00</published>
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Commit 3193c0836 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for
___bpf_prog_run()") introduced a __no_fgcse macro that expands to a
function scope __attribute__((optimize("-fno-gcse"))), to disable a
GCC specific optimization that was causing trouble on x86 builds, and
was not expected to have any positive effect in the first place.

However, as the GCC manual documents, __attribute__((optimize))
is not for production use, and results in all other optimization
options to be forgotten for the function in question. This can
cause all kinds of trouble, but in one particular reported case,
it causes -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to be disregarded,
resulting in .eh_frame info to be emitted for the function.

This reverts commit 3193c0836, and instead, it disables the -fgcse
optimization for the entire source file, but only when building for
X86 using GCC with CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON disabled. Note that the
original commit states that CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n triggers the issue,
whereas CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y performs better without the optimization,
so it is kept disabled in both cases.

Fixes: 3193c0836f20 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdUg0WJHEcq6to0-eODpXPOywLot6UD2=GFHpzoj_hCoBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028171506.15682-2-ardb@kernel.org
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Commit 3193c0836 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for
___bpf_prog_run()") introduced a __no_fgcse macro that expands to a
function scope __attribute__((optimize("-fno-gcse"))), to disable a
GCC specific optimization that was causing trouble on x86 builds, and
was not expected to have any positive effect in the first place.

However, as the GCC manual documents, __attribute__((optimize))
is not for production use, and results in all other optimization
options to be forgotten for the function in question. This can
cause all kinds of trouble, but in one particular reported case,
it causes -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to be disregarded,
resulting in .eh_frame info to be emitted for the function.

This reverts commit 3193c0836, and instead, it disables the -fgcse
optimization for the entire source file, but only when building for
X86 using GCC with CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON disabled. Note that the
original commit states that CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n triggers the issue,
whereas CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y performs better without the optimization,
so it is kept disabled in both cases.

Fixes: 3193c0836f20 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdUg0WJHEcq6to0-eODpXPOywLot6UD2=GFHpzoj_hCoBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028171506.15682-2-ardb@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ctype.h: remove duplicate isdigit() helper</title>
<updated>2020-10-28T13:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-19T07:35:39+00:00</published>
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gcc warns a few thousand times about the isdigit() shadow:

include/linux/ctype.h:26:19: warning: declaration of 'isdigit' shadows a built-in function [-Wshadow]

As there is already a compiler builtin, just use that, and make
it clear we do that by defining a macro.  Unfortunately, clang
does not have the isdigit() builtin, so this has to be conditional.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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gcc warns a few thousand times about the isdigit() shadow:

include/linux/ctype.h:26:19: warning: declaration of 'isdigit' shadows a built-in function [-Wshadow]

As there is already a compiler builtin, just use that, and make
it clear we do that by defining a macro.  Unfortunately, clang
does not have the isdigit() builtin, so this has to be conditional.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparse: use static inline for __chk_{user,io}_ptr()</title>
<updated>2020-08-29T07:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-28T08:53:01+00:00</published>
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__chk_user_ptr() &amp; __chk_io_ptr() are dummy extern functions which
only exist to enforce the typechecking of __user or __iomem pointers
in macros when using sparse.

This typechecking is done by inserting a call to these functions.
But the presence of these calls can inhibit some simplifications
and so influence the result of sparse's analysis of context/locking.

Fix this by changing these calls into static inline calls with
an empty body.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
__chk_user_ptr() &amp; __chk_io_ptr() are dummy extern functions which
only exist to enforce the typechecking of __user or __iomem pointers
in macros when using sparse.

This typechecking is done by inserting a call to these functions.
But the presence of these calls can inhibit some simplifications
and so influence the result of sparse's analysis of context/locking.

Fix this by changing these calls into static inline calls with
an empty body.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparse: group the defines by functionality</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:34:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
By popular demand, reorder the defines for sparse annotations and group
them by functionality.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdWQsirja-h3wBcZezk+H2Q_HShhAks8Hc8ps5fTAp=ObQ@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200621143652.53798-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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By popular demand, reorder the defines for sparse annotations and group
them by functionality.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdWQsirja-h3wBcZezk+H2Q_HShhAks8Hc8ps5fTAp=ObQ@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200621143652.53798-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-03T21:11:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-03T21:11:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=145ff1ec090dce9beb5a9590b5dc288e7bb2e65d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 and cross-arch updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here's a slightly wider-spread set of updates for 5.9.

  Going outside the usual arch/arm64/ area is the removal of
  read_barrier_depends() series from Will and the MSI/IOMMU ID
  translation series from Lorenzo.

  The notable arm64 updates include ARMv8.4 TLBI range operations and
  translation level hint, time namespace support, and perf.

  Summary:

   - Removal of the tremendously unpopular read_barrier_depends()
     barrier, which is a NOP on all architectures apart from Alpha, in
     favour of allowing architectures to override READ_ONCE() and do
     whatever dance they need to do to ensure address dependencies
     provide LOAD -&gt; LOAD/STORE ordering.

     This work also offers a potential solution if compilers are shown
     to convert LOAD -&gt; LOAD address dependencies into control
     dependencies (e.g. under LTO), as weakly ordered architectures will
     effectively be able to upgrade READ_ONCE() to smp_load_acquire().
     The latter case is not used yet, but will be discussed further at
     LPC.

   - Make the MSI/IOMMU input/output ID translation PCI agnostic,
     augment the MSI/IOMMU ACPI/OF ID mapping APIs to accept an input ID
     bus-specific parameter and apply the resulting changes to the
     device ID space provided by the Freescale FSL bus.

   - arm64 support for TLBI range operations and translation table level
     hints (part of the ARMv8.4 architecture version).

   - Time namespace support for arm64.

   - Export the virtual and physical address sizes in vmcoreinfo for
     makedumpfile and crash utilities.

   - CPU feature handling cleanups and checks for programmer errors
     (overlapping bit-fields).

   - ACPI updates for arm64: disallow AML accesses to EFI code regions
     and kernel memory.

   - perf updates for arm64.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups, most notably PLT counting
     optimisation for module loading, recordmcount fix to ignore
     relocations other than R_AARCH64_CALL26, CMA areas reserved for
     gigantic pages on 16K and 64K configurations.

   - Trivial typos, duplicate words"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710165203.31284-1-will@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619082013.13661-1-lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (82 commits)
  arm64: use IRQ_STACK_SIZE instead of THREAD_SIZE for irq stack
  arm64/mm: save memory access in check_and_switch_context() fast switch path
  arm64: sigcontext.h: delete duplicated word
  arm64: ptrace.h: delete duplicated word
  arm64: pgtable-hwdef.h: delete duplicated words
  bus: fsl-mc: Add ACPI support for fsl-mc
  bus/fsl-mc: Refactor the MSI domain creation in the DPRC driver
  of/irq: Make of_msi_map_rid() PCI bus agnostic
  of/irq: make of_msi_map_get_device_domain() bus agnostic
  dt-bindings: arm: fsl: Add msi-map device-tree binding for fsl-mc bus
  of/device: Add input id to of_dma_configure()
  of/iommu: Make of_map_rid() PCI agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Add an input ID to acpi_dma_configure()
  ACPI/IORT: Remove useless PCI bus walk
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_msi_map_rid() PCI agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_get_device_domain IRQ domain agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_match_node_callback walk the ACPI namespace for NC
  arm64: enable time namespace support
  arm64/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA
  arm64/vdso: Handle faults on timens page
  ...
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<pre>
Pull arm64 and cross-arch updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here's a slightly wider-spread set of updates for 5.9.

  Going outside the usual arch/arm64/ area is the removal of
  read_barrier_depends() series from Will and the MSI/IOMMU ID
  translation series from Lorenzo.

  The notable arm64 updates include ARMv8.4 TLBI range operations and
  translation level hint, time namespace support, and perf.

  Summary:

   - Removal of the tremendously unpopular read_barrier_depends()
     barrier, which is a NOP on all architectures apart from Alpha, in
     favour of allowing architectures to override READ_ONCE() and do
     whatever dance they need to do to ensure address dependencies
     provide LOAD -&gt; LOAD/STORE ordering.

     This work also offers a potential solution if compilers are shown
     to convert LOAD -&gt; LOAD address dependencies into control
     dependencies (e.g. under LTO), as weakly ordered architectures will
     effectively be able to upgrade READ_ONCE() to smp_load_acquire().
     The latter case is not used yet, but will be discussed further at
     LPC.

   - Make the MSI/IOMMU input/output ID translation PCI agnostic,
     augment the MSI/IOMMU ACPI/OF ID mapping APIs to accept an input ID
     bus-specific parameter and apply the resulting changes to the
     device ID space provided by the Freescale FSL bus.

   - arm64 support for TLBI range operations and translation table level
     hints (part of the ARMv8.4 architecture version).

   - Time namespace support for arm64.

   - Export the virtual and physical address sizes in vmcoreinfo for
     makedumpfile and crash utilities.

   - CPU feature handling cleanups and checks for programmer errors
     (overlapping bit-fields).

   - ACPI updates for arm64: disallow AML accesses to EFI code regions
     and kernel memory.

   - perf updates for arm64.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups, most notably PLT counting
     optimisation for module loading, recordmcount fix to ignore
     relocations other than R_AARCH64_CALL26, CMA areas reserved for
     gigantic pages on 16K and 64K configurations.

   - Trivial typos, duplicate words"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710165203.31284-1-will@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619082013.13661-1-lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (82 commits)
  arm64: use IRQ_STACK_SIZE instead of THREAD_SIZE for irq stack
  arm64/mm: save memory access in check_and_switch_context() fast switch path
  arm64: sigcontext.h: delete duplicated word
  arm64: ptrace.h: delete duplicated word
  arm64: pgtable-hwdef.h: delete duplicated words
  bus: fsl-mc: Add ACPI support for fsl-mc
  bus/fsl-mc: Refactor the MSI domain creation in the DPRC driver
  of/irq: Make of_msi_map_rid() PCI bus agnostic
  of/irq: make of_msi_map_get_device_domain() bus agnostic
  dt-bindings: arm: fsl: Add msi-map device-tree binding for fsl-mc bus
  of/device: Add input id to of_dma_configure()
  of/iommu: Make of_map_rid() PCI agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Add an input ID to acpi_dma_configure()
  ACPI/IORT: Remove useless PCI bus walk
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_msi_map_rid() PCI agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_get_device_domain IRQ domain agnostic
  ACPI/IORT: Make iort_match_node_callback walk the ACPI namespace for NC
  arm64: enable time namespace support
  arm64/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA
  arm64/vdso: Handle faults on timens page
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Move compiletime_assert() macros into compiler_types.h</title>
<updated>2020-07-21T09:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T08:54:15+00:00</published>
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The kernel test robot reports that moving READ_ONCE() out into its own
header breaks a W=1 build for parisc, which is relying on the definition
of compiletime_assert() being available:

  | In file included from ./arch/parisc/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1,
  |                  from ./include/asm-generic/barrier.h:16,
  |                  from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/barrier.h:29,
  |                  from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:11,
  |                  from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7,
  |                  from kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c:2:
  | ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h: In function 'atomic_read':
  | ./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:36:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'compiletime_assert' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  |    36 |  compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
  |       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  | ./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:49:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
  |    49 |  compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x);    \
  |       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  | ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:73:9: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
  |    73 |  return READ_ONCE((v)-&gt;counter);
  |       |         ^~~~~~~~~

Move these macros into compiler_types.h, so that they are available to
READ_ONCE() and friends.

Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2020-July/587094.html
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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The kernel test robot reports that moving READ_ONCE() out into its own
header breaks a W=1 build for parisc, which is relying on the definition
of compiletime_assert() being available:

  | In file included from ./arch/parisc/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1,
  |                  from ./include/asm-generic/barrier.h:16,
  |                  from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/barrier.h:29,
  |                  from ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:11,
  |                  from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7,
  |                  from kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c:2:
  | ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h: In function 'atomic_read':
  | ./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:36:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'compiletime_assert' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  |    36 |  compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
  |       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  | ./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:49:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
  |    49 |  compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x);    \
  |       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  | ./arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:73:9: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
  |    73 |  return READ_ONCE((v)-&gt;counter);
  |       |         ^~~~~~~~~

Move these macros into compiler_types.h, so that they are available to
READ_ONCE() and friends.

Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2020-July/587094.html
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T17:48:35+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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