kernel_optimize_test/arch/um
Emese Revfy 6b90bd4ba4 GCC plugin infrastructure
This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too.
Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins.

The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory
there. The plugins compile with these options:
 * -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too
 * -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too
 * -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too
 * -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal
    errors)
 * -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h)
 * -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version
    variable, plugin-version.h)

The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It
supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0. The scripts/gcc-plugin.sh script
chooses the proper host compiler (gcc-4.7 can be built by either gcc or g++).
This script also checks the availability of the included headers in
scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h.

The gcc-common.h header contains frequently included headers for GCC plugins
and it has a compatibility layer for the supported gcc versions.

The gcc-generate-*-pass.h headers automatically generate the registration
structures for GIMPLE, SIMPLE_IPA, IPA and RTL passes.

Note that 'make clean' keeps the *.so files (only the distclean or mrproper
targets clean all) because they are needed for out-of-tree modules.

Based on work created by the PaX Team.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-06-07 22:57:10 +02:00
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configs arch/defconfig: remove CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2016-05-17 16:26:30 -07:00
include um: add extended processor state save/restore support 2016-05-21 23:38:06 +02:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-05-27 18:54:59 -07:00
os-Linux um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support YMM registers 2016-05-21 23:37:40 +02:00
scripts
.gitignore
Kconfig.char
Kconfig.common GCC plugin infrastructure 2016-06-07 22:57:10 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
Kconfig.net
Kconfig.rest
Kconfig.um
Makefile
Makefile-os-Linux
Makefile-skas