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Re: [PATCH] arm64: move --fix-cortex-a53-843419 linker test to Kconfig

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-03-28 07:02:14
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:36 PM Catalin Marinas
[off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Masahiro,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:11:28PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
quoted
$(call ld-option, --fix-cortex-a53-843419) in arch/arm64/Makefile is
evaluated every time even for Make targets that do not need the linker,
such as "make ARCH=arm64 install".

Recently, the Kbuild tree queued up a patch to avoid needless
compiler/linker flag evaluation. I beleive it is a good improvement
itself, but causing a false-positive warning for arm64 installation
in linux-next. (Thanks to Nathan for the report)

Kconfig can test the linker capability just once, and store it in the
.config file. The build and installation steps that follow do not need
to test the liniker over again.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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I was not sure what the preferred CONFIG option name is.
Please suggest a one if you have a better idea.


 arch/arm64/Kconfig  | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Would you like this patch to go in via the arm64 tree or you will queue
it via the kbuild tree?
I applied this to linux-kbuild with Will's Ack.
Thanks.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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