Patch "x86/build: Fix build with older GCC versions" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

Patch "x86/build: Fix build with older GCC versions" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/build: Fix build with older GCC versions

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-build-fix-build-with-older-gcc-versions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a2209b742e6cf978b85d4f31a25a269c3d3b062b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:00:12 -0600
Subject: x86/build: Fix build with older GCC versions

From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>

commit a2209b742e6cf978b85d4f31a25a269c3d3b062b upstream.

Older GCC (observed with 4.1.x) doesn't support -Wno-override-init and
also doesn't ignore unknown -Wno-* options.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Fixes: 5e44258d16 "x86/build: Reduce the W=1 warnings noise when compiling x86 syscall tables"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/580E3E1C02000078001191C4@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/Makefile |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/Makefile
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_entry_$(BITS).o   := y
 OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_entry_64_compat.o := y
 
-CFLAGS_syscall_64.o		+= -Wno-override-init
-CFLAGS_syscall_32.o		+= -Wno-override-init
+CFLAGS_syscall_64.o		+= $(call cc-option,-Wno-override-init,)
+CFLAGS_syscall_32.o		+= $(call cc-option,-Wno-override-init,)
 obj-y				:= entry_$(BITS).o thunk_$(BITS).o syscall_$(BITS).o
 obj-y				+= common.o
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@suse.com are

queue-4.8/x86-build-fix-build-with-older-gcc-versions.patch