Patch "kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kbuild-allow-arch-makefiles-to-override-cpp-ld-c-flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 61754c18752ffb78145671e94f053fb202fff041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:19:30 +0200
Subject: kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags

From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

commit 61754c18752ffb78145671e94f053fb202fff041 upstream.

Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command
line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main
Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler
option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to
fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and
ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild
variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS
and KCFLAGS variables.

Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt |    8 ++++++++
 Makefile                           |    9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -952,6 +952,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following step
 	$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
 	mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).
 
+    ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS, ARCH_CFLAGS   Overrides the kbuild defaults
+
+	These variables are appended to the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS,
+	KBUILD_AFLAGS, and KBUILD_CFLAGS, respectively, after the
+	top-level Makefile has set any other flags. This provides a
+	means for an architecture to override the defaults.
+
+
 --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archheaders:
 
 	The archheaders: rule is used to generate header files that
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -783,10 +783,11 @@ endif
 include scripts/Makefile.kasan
 include scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
 
-# Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
-KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KCPPFLAGS)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(KAFLAGS)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KCFLAGS)
+# Add any arch overrides and user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the
+# last assignments
+KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(ARCH_CPPFLAGS) $(KCPPFLAGS)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(ARCH_AFLAGS)   $(KAFLAGS)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(ARCH_CFLAGS)   $(KCFLAGS)
 
 # Use --build-id when available.
 LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mmarek@suse.cz are

queue-4.1/kbuild-allow-arch-makefiles-to-override-cpp-ld-c-flags.patch
queue-4.1/arc-override-toplevel-default-o2-with-o3.patch