gcc 9.0 support in v4.4.y

gcc 9.0 support in v4.4.y

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi,

please consider applying the following two patches from v4.9.y to v4.4.y.

fe5844365ec6 ("Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9")
2c34c215c102 ("include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module")
	(upstream commit a6e60d84989f)

... to enable compiling v4.4.y with gcc 9.x.

This already works for the most part, but alpha:allmodconfig and
arm:allmodconfig fail to compile. The above two patches fix the problem.

Thanks,
Guenter

Re: gcc 9.0 support in v4.4.y

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>Hi,
>
>please consider applying the following two patches from v4.9.y to v4.4.y.
>
>fe5844365ec6 ("Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9")
>2c34c215c102 ("include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module")
>	(upstream commit a6e60d84989f)
>
>... to enable compiling v4.4.y with gcc 9.x.
>
>This already works for the most part, but alpha:allmodconfig and
>arm:allmodconfig fail to compile. The above two patches fix the problem.

Queued up, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha

Re: gcc 9.0 support in v4.4.y

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 09:50:43PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > please consider applying the following two patches from v4.9.y to v4.4.y.
> > 
> > fe5844365ec6 ("Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9")
> > 2c34c215c102 ("include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module")
> > 	(upstream commit a6e60d84989f)
> > 
> > ... to enable compiling v4.4.y with gcc 9.x.
> > 
> > This already works for the most part, but alpha:allmodconfig and
> > arm:allmodconfig fail to compile. The above two patches fix the problem.
> 
> Queued up, thanks!

THanks for this, my build results are _much_ nice looking now :)

greg k-h