From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49826 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727332AbeILXaQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:30:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:24:28 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Vasily Gorbik Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately" has been added to the ...-stable tree Message-ID: <20180912182428.GA20855@kroah.com> References: <15366609483983@kroah.com> <1536660925253231@kroah.com> <153666090117436@kroah.com> <1536660870156224@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 05:36:23PM +0200, Vasily Gorbik wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:14:30PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately > > > > to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > ... > > > to the 4.18-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > ... > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > ... > > > 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 > > > > I believe there is no need to backport this patch in neither of stable > branches listed above. This patch is the first one in the patch series: > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.thread-aa7b8d.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours > > The patch series adds s390 support for utilizing newly available for s390 > in gcc 9 flags -fentry -mrecord-mcount and -mnop-mcount, and adds generic > -mnop-mcount support. And there is no benefit in backporting just the > first one. > > Moreover this patch cause kernel recompile for intdeb-pkg and tar%pkg > targets (i.e. make targz-pkg), because those targets call make recursively > (they do extra "make modules_install"), and exported variable cause > duplicated build flags in sub-make. > > There is a potential fix: > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg19297.html Thanks for letting me know, I've dropped this from everywhere now. greg k-h