Patch "compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     compiler-gcc.h-introduce-__optimize-function-attribute.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From df5d45aa08f848b79caf395211b222790534ccc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:21:58 +0100
Subject: compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

commit df5d45aa08f848b79caf395211b222790534ccc7 upstream.

Create a new function attribute __optimize, which allows to specify an
optimization level on a per-function basis.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    4 ++++
 include/linux/compiler.h     |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -187,6 +187,10 @@
 #endif /* __CHECKER__ */
 #endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40300 */
 
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40400
+#define __optimize(level)	__attribute__((__optimize__(level)))
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40400 */
+
 #if GCC_VERSION >= 40500
 
 #ifndef __CHECKER__
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -469,6 +469,10 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once
 # define __native_word(t) (sizeof(t) == sizeof(char) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(short) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(int) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long))
 #endif
 
+#ifndef __optimize
+# define __optimize(level)
+#endif
+
 /* Compile time object size, -1 for unknown */
 #ifndef __compiletime_object_size
 # define __compiletime_object_size(obj) -1


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert@linux-m68k.org are

queue-4.9/compiler-gcc.h-introduce-__optimize-function-attribute.patch