linux_dsm_epyc7002/tools
Linus Torvalds 6ec4476ac8 Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9
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 5435f73d5c ("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 <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-08 10:48:35 -07:00
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accounting SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
arch tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy' 2020-07-03 08:11:16 -03:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add testcase for show-command and quotes test 2020-06-16 21:21:03 -04:00
bpf tools, bpftool: Add ringbuf map type to map command docs 2020-06-17 17:52:30 +02:00
build perf build: Remove libaudit from the default feature checks 2020-05-29 16:51:13 -03:00
cgroup Merge branch 'block-5.7' into for-5.8/block 2020-05-09 16:13:58 -06:00
debugging
edid tools/edid: Move EDID data sets from Documentation/ 2020-02-19 04:10:32 -07:00
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: add bias flags to lsgpio 2020-05-05 18:27:09 +02:00
hv Tools: hv: Reopen the devices if read() or write() returns errors 2020-01-26 22:10:10 -05:00
iio .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
include Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9 2020-07-08 10:48:35 -07:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: add sample systemd unit file 2020-04-21 09:13:12 -04:00
laptop change email address for Pali Rohár 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
leds .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
lib tools lib traceevent: Add proper KBUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP handling 2020-07-03 08:45:38 -03:00
memory-model .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
nfsd
objtool Peter Zijlstra says: 2020-06-28 10:16:15 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Add 'e' to clear IRQ 2020-04-02 17:57:10 +01:00
pcmcia .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
perf perf report TUI: Remove needless 'dummy' event from menu 2020-07-06 09:24:02 -03:00
power Merge branch 'acpica' 2020-06-10 17:27:28 +02:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-03-25 18:58:11 -07:00
spi spi: tools: Make default_tx/rx and input_tx static 2020-06-11 16:27:24 +01:00
testing A series of fixes for x86: 2020-07-05 12:23:49 -07:00
thermal/tmon - Convert tsens configuration DT binding to yaml (Rajeshwari) 2020-04-07 20:00:16 -07:00
time
usb .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio: Use tools/include/list.h instead of stubs 2020-06-22 12:34:22 -04:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line 2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
wmi
Makefile tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig command 2020-01-13 13:19:39 -05:00