From: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, keescook@chromium.org,
re.emese@gmail.com
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu, spender@grsecurity.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mmarek@suse.com,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: enable support for GCC plugins
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:45:54 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7861b43-cda8-0212-b2fb-7331c8f6996d@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161206062800.21800-3-andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
On 06/12/16 17:28, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Enable support for GCC plugins on powerpc.
>
> Add an additional version check in gcc-plugins-check to advise users to
> upgrade to gcc 5.2+ on powerpc to avoid issues with header files (gcc <=
> 4.6) or missing copies of rs6000-cpus.def (4.8 to 5.1 on 64-bit targets).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
>
> ---
>
> Open to bikeshedding on the gcc version check.
>
> Compile tested with all plugins enabled on gcc 4.6-6.2,
> x86->ppc{32,64,64le} and 4.8-6.2 ppc64le->ppc{32,64,64le}. Thanks to
> Chris Smart for help with this.
>
> I think it's best to take this through powerpc#next with an ACK from
> Kees/Emese?
> ---
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 8 ++++++++
Will respin with an update to Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt as well.
--
Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-06 6:27 [PATCH 1/3] gcc-plugins: fix definition of DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-06 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: correctly disable latent entropy GCC plugin on prom_init.o Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-06 6:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: enable support for GCC plugins Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-06 20:40 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-07 1:05 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-06 21:25 ` Emese Revfy
2016-12-07 5:49 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-07 5:45 ` Andrew Donnellan [this message]
2016-12-08 14:42 ` PaX Team
2016-12-08 18:06 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-09 2:48 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-12-09 10:59 ` PaX Team
2017-01-27 5:52 ` Andrew Donnellan
2017-01-27 5:55 ` Andrew Donnellan
2017-02-06 20:37 ` [1/3] gcc-plugins: fix definition of DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN Michael Ellerman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=d7861b43-cda8-0212-b2fb-7331c8f6996d@au1.ibm.com \
--to=andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com \
--cc=keescook@chromium.org \
--cc=kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com \
--cc=linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
--cc=mmarek@suse.com \
--cc=pageexec@freemail.hu \
--cc=re.emese@gmail.com \
--cc=spender@grsecurity.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).