From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, trix@redhat.com,
masahiroy@kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, npiggin@gmail.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, nicolas@fjasle.eu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] powerpc/vdso: Remove unused '-s' flag from ASFLAGS
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 05:45:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230110114523.GP25951@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7y2izKLUYr7giKj@dev-arch.thelio-3990X>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 05:51:23PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> So for this patch, I have
>
> When clang's -Qunused-arguments is dropped from KBUILD_CPPFLAGS, it
> warns:
>
> clang-16: error: argument unused during compilation: '-s' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument]
>
> The compiler's '-s' flag is a linking option (it is passed along to the
> linker directly), which means it does nothing when the linker is not
> invoked by the compiler. The kernel builds all .o files with either '-c'
> or '-S', which do not run the linker, so '-s' can be safely dropped from
> ASFLAGS.
>
> as a new commit message. Is that sufficient for everyone? If so, I'll
> adjust the s390 commit to match, as it is the same exact problem.
Almost? -S doesn't write .o files, it writes a .s file. To go from an
assembler file (.s, or .S if you want to run the C preprocessor on non-C
code for some strange reason, the assembler macro facilities are vastly
superior) to an object file is just -c as well.
> Alternatively, if '-s' should actually remain around, we could move it
> to ldflags-y, which is added in patch 7. However, I assume that nobody
> has noticed that it has not been doing its job for a while, so it should
> be safe to remove.
+1
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-10 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-04 19:54 [PATCH 00/14] Remove clang's -Qunused-arguments from KBUILD_CPPFLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 01/14] x86/boot/compressed: prefer cc-option for CFLAGS additions Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 02/14] MIPS: Always use -Wa,-msoft-float and eliminate GAS_HAS_SET_HARDFLOAT Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 21:18 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-10 7:45 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-01-10 8:30 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 03/14] MIPS: Prefer cc-option for additions to cflags Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 21:21 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-10 7:42 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-01-10 8:30 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 04/14] kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper flags and language target Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 05/14] powerpc: Remove linker flag from KBUILD_AFLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 21:24 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 06/14] powerpc/vdso: Remove unused '-s' flag from ASFLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 21:58 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-09 22:15 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:21 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-09 22:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-01-09 22:37 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-01-09 23:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-10 0:51 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-10 11:45 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2023-01-10 15:02 ` Nathan Chancellor
[not found] ` <20230109222337.GM25951__25255.3859770828$1673303520$gmane$org@gate.crashing.org>
2023-01-10 0:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-10 0:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 07/14] powerpc/vdso: Improve linker flags Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:08 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-09 22:15 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 08/14] powerpc/vdso: Remove an unsupported flag from vgettimeofday-32.o with clang Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:12 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-09 22:38 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 23:16 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 09/14] s390/vdso: Drop unused '-s' flag from KBUILD_AFLAGS_64 Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-05 7:27 ` Sven Schnelle
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 10/14] s390/vdso: Drop '-shared' from KBUILD_CFLAGS_64 Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-05 7:31 ` Sven Schnelle
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 11/14] s390/purgatory: Remove unused '-MD' and unnecessary '-c' flags Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-05 7:33 ` Sven Schnelle
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 12/14] drm/amd/display: Do not add '-mhard-float' to dml_ccflags for clang Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-05 14:21 ` Alex Deucher
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 13/14] kbuild: Turn a couple more of clang's unused option warnings into errors Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:15 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-04 19:54 ` [PATCH 14/14] kbuild: Stop using '-Qunused-arguments' with clang Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-09 22:17 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-01-05 8:00 ` [PATCH 00/14] Remove clang's -Qunused-arguments from KBUILD_CPPFLAGS Heiko Carstens
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