From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:56:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28e3e35c-1a26-5f87-064e-39f8a1fc9105@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200123153341.19947-11-will@kernel.org>
On 23.01.2020 16:33, Will Deacon wrote:
> The kernel requires at least GCC 4.8 in order to build, and so there is
> no need to cater for the pre-4.7 gcov format.
>
> Remove the obsolete code.
>
> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> ---
> kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 24 --
> kernel/gcov/Makefile | 3 +-
> kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c | 573 ------------------------------------------
> 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 599 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Compiles, boots, produces coverage output on a s390 system with a
recent-ish GCC version, so that change is fine by me.
There's a final reference to the gcc_3_4.c file in the gcc_4_7.c header
comment, but its probably not worth the extra effort to adjust that as well.
--
Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on Z Development - IBM Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-28 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-23 15:33 [PATCH v2 00/10] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] compiler/gcc: Emit build-time warning for GCC prior to version 4.8 Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] netfilter: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer Will Deacon
2020-01-23 19:07 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-24 8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-24 17:20 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-27 12:04 ` David Laight
2020-01-24 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-24 22:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-27 12:21 ` David Laight
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] fault_inject: Don't rely on "return value" from WRITE_ONCE() Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses Will Deacon
2020-01-25 8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-29 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] READ_ONCE: Drop pointer qualifiers when reading from scalar types Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] locking/barriers: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for load-acquire macros Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] arm64: barrier: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for acquire/release macros Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8 Will Deacon
2020-01-23 18:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-24 8:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-24 17:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-24 23:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-25 10:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-23 15:33 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support Will Deacon
2020-01-23 18:51 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-28 14:56 ` Peter Oberparleiter [this message]
2020-01-23 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen David Laight
2020-01-23 17:16 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-23 17:32 ` David Laight
2020-01-23 18:45 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-23 19:01 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-24 10:11 ` David Laight
2020-01-26 1:10 ` Qais Yousef
2020-01-27 7:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-23 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-24 8:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-24 10:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-10 9:50 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-02-10 9:59 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-31 10:20 ` David Howells
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