From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404D9ECDE47 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD952081C for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:00:44 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0FD952081C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=deltatee.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727227AbeKIFhn (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2018 00:37:43 -0500 Received: from ale.deltatee.com ([207.54.116.67]:57774 "EHLO ale.deltatee.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725882AbeKIFhm (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2018 00:37:42 -0500 Received: from guinness.priv.deltatee.com ([172.16.1.162]) by ale.deltatee.com with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gKqTj-00061s-GZ; Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:00:36 -0700 To: Nadav Amit , "hpa@zytor.com" , Ingo Molnar Cc: LKML , X86 ML , Sam Ravnborg , Michal Marek , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Stephen Bates References: <20181003213100.189959-1-namit@vmware.com> <20181003213100.189959-3-namit@vmware.com> <89262174-6f15-6116-e67f-436f7c1bfe99@deltatee.com> <6651971B-E3AB-4CDD-868C-2338593F7D83@vmware.com> <192946CF-8543-4CF5-B2A3-93674FCD07E2@vmware.com> <7bc80811-8ab3-d26a-6fb3-b7aeebcfce43@deltatee.com> <85B77A64-5FF3-4B82-8A07-E045E259C985@zytor.com> <3B824A03-AB76-4B34-B1CA-F27C0F1B0575@vmware.com> <2c022676-9299-bb5f-023b-5c114cd79f81@deltatee.com> <080748A5-2588-47C9-BC2A-E643630FB9A7@vmware.com> From: Logan Gunthorpe Message-ID: <3ae6dd1f-9b59-8552-f438-c40b08771226@deltatee.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:00:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <080748A5-2588-47C9-BC2A-E643630FB9A7@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-CA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 172.16.1.162 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: sbates@raithlin.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, michal.lkml@markovi.net, sam@ravnborg.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, namit@vmware.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: logang@deltatee.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/10] Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline asm X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:31 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on ale.deltatee.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2018-11-08 12:54 p.m., Nadav Amit wrote: > I don’t think the assembly stage needs to be done locally. gcc can still be > used to deploy the assembler. I am not too familiar with distcc, so I don’t > know whether the preprocessing supports multiple source-files, and whether > it has some strange-behavior when it comes to .S/.s files. The problem is that it's the assembly stage that needs the extra macros.s and without that file being transferred somehow, that stage must be done locally. The distcc guys have a thought that the macros.s file might be able to be transferred using pump mode with a change to include_server.py. I don't think that will work for icecc though. Logan