[tip:x86/build] x86/build: Remove old -funit-at-a-time GCC quirk

From: tip-bot for Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sun Jul 15 2018 - 19:36:08 EST


Commit-ID: bdc9c3e5ed953441a46ef3acd81c783d591c9a96
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/bdc9c3e5ed953441a46ef3acd81c783d591c9a96
Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:07:21 +0900
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:25:10 +0200

x86/build: Remove old -funit-at-a-time GCC quirk

The following commit:

e501ce957a78 ("x86: Force asm-goto")

... bumped the minimum GCC version to 4.5 for building the x86 kernel.

arch/x86/Makefile no longer needs to take care of older GCC versions,
such as this pre-4.0 -funit-at-a-time quirk.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531138041-24200-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index a08e82856563..7e3c07d6ad42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -80,11 +80,6 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
# alignment instructions.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,$(cc_stack_align4))

- # Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.0 compilers, it makes gcc use
- # a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots:
- KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0400, \
- $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time))
-
# CPU-specific tuning. Anything which can be shared with UML should go here.
include arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)