From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932168AbbA2XNF (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:13:05 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59168 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759214AbbA2XND (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:13:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:13:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov , Konstantin Serebryany , Dmitry Chernenkov , Andrey Konovalov , Yuri Gribov , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Sasha Levin , Christoph Lameter , Joonsoo Kim , Dave Hansen , Andi Kleen , x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org (open list:GENERIC INCLUDE/A...) Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 15/17] kernel: add support for .init_array.* constructors Message-Id: <20150129151301.006abdbcf9e0dd136dd6ed2f@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1422544321-24232-16-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com> References: <1404905415-9046-1-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com> <1422544321-24232-1-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com> <1422544321-24232-16-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:11:59 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > KASan uses constructors for initializing redzones for global > variables. Actually KASan doesn't need priorities for constructors, > so they were removed from GCC 5.0, but GCC 4.9.2 still generates > constructors with priorities. I don't understand this changelog either. What's wrong with priorities and what is the patch doing about it? More details, please.