[RFC PATCH 02/28] Documentation: Bump minimum GCC version to 8.1

Ard Biesheuvel
2024-09-25T15:01:56Z

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Bump the minimum GCC version to 8.1 to gain unconditional support for
referring to the per-task stack cookie using a symbol rather than
relying on the fixed offset of 40 bytes from %GS, which requires
elaborate hacks to support.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
index f2bebff6a733..3dda41923ed6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Configuring the kernel
Compiling the kernel
--------------------

- - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available.
+ - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available.
For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`.

- Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 00f1ed7c59c3..59b7d3d8a577 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
====================== =============== ========================================
Program Minimal version Command to check the version
====================== =============== ========================================
-GNU C 5.1 gcc --version
+GNU C 8.1 gcc --version
Clang/LLVM (optional) 13.0.1 clang --version
Rust (optional) 1.78.0 rustc --version
bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version
--
2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog