From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
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"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
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"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socio
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max()
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:04:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxtM4zq7vGsUz0DBpJ7jECrHoXwiYdAX+Z2wSNyfPKDsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiq72nmCCDa9vV-49cNaJoQQO25r2YsYDaspoKn0xMeDOH10w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just compiled 4.9.0 and it seems to work -- so that would be the
> minimum required.
>
> Sigh...
>
> Some enterprise distros are either already shipping gcc >= 5 or will
> probably be shipping it soon (e.g. RHEL 8), so how much does it hurt
> to ask for a newer gcc? Are there many users/companies out there using
> enterprise distributions' gcc to compile and run the very latest
> kernels?
I wouldn't mind upping the compiler requirements, and we have other
reasons to go to 4.6.
But _this_ particular issue doesn't seem worth it to then go even
further. Annoying.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-10 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-09 20:05 [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max() Kees Cook
2018-03-09 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 21:47 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-11 22:46 ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-03-13 13:31 ` David Laight
2018-03-10 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-10 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-10 0:32 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-10 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-10 1:30 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-10 1:31 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-10 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20180310023907.798690563@goodmis.org>
2018-03-10 3:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster Steven Rostedt
2018-03-10 3:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-10 3:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-12 22:55 ` [PATCH v3] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max() Andrew Morton
2018-03-12 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-13 4:28 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-13 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-13 22:14 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-14 11:35 ` David Laight
2018-03-10 3:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-03-10 6:10 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-03-10 7:03 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-03-10 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-03-10 15:33 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-10 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-10 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-10 17:34 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-03-10 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-10 19:08 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-03-11 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-11 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
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