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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: move --fix-cortex-a53-843419 linker test to Kconfig
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:36:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210326143630.GD5126@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210324071128.1723273-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>

Hi Masahiro,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:11:28PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> $(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>
> ---
> 
> 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?

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24  7:11 [PATCH] arm64: move --fix-cortex-a53-843419 linker test to Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-24 16:46 ` Will Deacon
2021-03-24 17:41 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-26 14:36 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-03-28  6:59   ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-28 11:12     ` Catalin Marinas

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