kernel_optimize_test/mm
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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kasan mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK and include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h 2020-06-04 19:06:21 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: remove the name field in struct backing_dev_info 2020-05-09 16:15:13 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings 2019-09-04 07:42:01 -04:00
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs fops 2019-12-01 12:59:09 -08:00
cma.c mm/cma.c: use exact_nid true to fix possible per-numa cma leak 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
cma.h
compaction.c mm, compaction: make capture control handling safe wrt interrupts 2020-06-26 00:27:36 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c mm/debug_vm_pgtable: fix build failure with powerpc 8xx 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
debug.c maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault 2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: micro-optimisation remove unnecessary branch 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap.c: use %pa to print resource_size_t variables 2020-01-31 10:30:38 -08:00
fadvise.c mm: return void from various readahead functions 2020-06-02 10:59:06 -07:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
frame_vector.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
frontswap.c mm/frontswap: fix some typos in frontswap.c 2020-06-04 19:06:24 -07:00
gup_benchmark.c mm/gup_benchmark: support pin_user_pages() and related calls 2020-04-02 09:35:27 -07:00
gup.c mm: Allow arches to provide ptep_get() 2020-06-20 22:14:53 +10:00
highmem.c mm, x86/mm: Untangle address space layout definitions from basic pgtable type definitions 2019-12-10 10:12:55 +01:00
hmm.c mmap locking API: add mmap_assert_locked() and mmap_assert_write_locked() 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
huge_memory.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: use fallthrough; 2020-04-07 10:43:41 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: fix pages per hugetlb calculation 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs fops 2019-12-01 12:59:09 -08:00
init-mm.c mmap locking API: add MMAP_LOCK_INITIALIZER 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
internal.h mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next 2020-06-07 17:25:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
khugepaged.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak.c: use address-of operator on section symbols 2020-04-02 09:35:26 -07:00
ksm.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru: fix a typo in comment "numbesr"->"numbers" 2020-06-04 19:06:24 -07:00
maccess.c maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault 2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
madvise.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
Makefile The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) 2020-06-11 18:55:43 -07:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c mm/mapping_dirty_helpers: update huge page-table entry callbacks 2020-04-02 09:35:29 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: fix a typo in comment "implict"->"implicit" 2020-06-04 19:06:23 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm/memcontrol.c: prevent missed memory.low load tears 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
memfd.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix false softlockup during pfn range removal 2020-06-26 00:27:38 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure: send SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) only to current thread 2020-06-11 18:17:47 -07:00
memory.c mm/memory: fix IO cost for anonymous page 2020-06-26 00:27:38 -07:00
mempolicy.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mempool.c
memremap.c mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
memtest.c
migrate.c Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9 2020-07-08 10:48:35 -07:00
mincore.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mlock.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mm_init.c mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags 2020-06-02 10:59:12 -07:00
mmap.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mmu_gather.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mremap.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
msync.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
nommu.c mm: remove vmalloc_exec 2020-06-26 00:27:38 -07:00
oom_kill.c kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc: fix documentation error 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
page_counter.c mm, memcg: prevent memory.min load/store tearing 2020-04-02 09:35:29 -07:00
page_ext.c mm/page_ext.c: drop pfn_present() check when onlining 2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
page_idle.c mm/page_idle.c: skip offline pages 2020-06-08 11:05:55 -07:00
page_io.c mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE 2020-06-04 15:36:52 -04:00
page_owner.c mm: rename gfpflags_to_migratetype to gfp_migratetype for same convention 2020-06-03 20:09:45 -07:00
page_poison.c mm/page_poison.c: fix a typo in a comment 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
page_reporting.c mm/page_reporting: add budget limit on how many pages can be reported per pass 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
page_reporting.h mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/page_vma_mapped.c: explicitly compare pfn for normal, hugetlbfs and THP page 2020-01-31 10:30:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback: fix a typo in comment "effictive"->"effective" 2020-06-04 19:06:24 -07:00
pagewalk.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
percpu-internal.h
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c percpu: update copyright emails to dennis@kernel.org 2020-04-01 10:09:12 -07:00
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc 2020-06-02 10:59:11 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
process_vm_access.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
ptdump.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
readahead.c mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path 2020-06-02 10:59:07 -07:00
rmap.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
rodata_test.c maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault 2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
shmem.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
shuffle.c mm: adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing 2020-04-07 10:43:38 -07:00
shuffle.h mm: adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing 2020-04-07 10:43:38 -07:00
slab_common.c mm/slab: use memzero_explicit() in kzfree() 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
slab.c mm/page_alloc: integrate classzone_idx and high_zoneidx 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
slab.h mm, slab: fix sign conversion problem in memcg_uncharge_slab() 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
slob.c mm/sl[uo]b: export __kmalloc_track(_node)_caller 2020-03-26 14:45:51 +01:00
slub.c slub: cure list_slab_objects() from double fix 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
sparse.c mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part of memory control 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: assign|reset cache slot by value directly 2020-04-02 09:35:27 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix swap cache node allocation mask 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
swap.c mm/swap: fix for "mm: workingset: age nonresident information alongside anonymous pages" 2020-06-26 00:27:38 -07:00
swapfile.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
truncate.c mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00
usercopy.c usercopy: Avoid HIGHMEM pfn warning 2019-09-17 15:20:17 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
util.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
vmacache.c kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: remove vmalloc_exec 2020-06-26 00:27:38 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm: vmpressure: use mem_cgroup_is_root API 2020-04-02 09:35:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: workingset: age nonresident information alongside anonymous pages 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: convert to use DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE macro 2020-06-04 19:06:26 -07:00
workingset.c mm: workingset: age nonresident information alongside anonymous pages 2020-06-26 00:27:37 -07:00
z3fold.c mm/z3fold: silence kmemleak false positives of slots 2020-05-28 11:35:40 -07:00
zbud.c mm: use false for bool variable 2020-06-04 19:06:24 -07:00
zpool.c zpool: add malloc_support_movable to zpool_driver 2019-09-24 15:54:12 -07:00
zsmalloc.c mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig 2020-04-07 10:43:41 -07:00