Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:43 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> Most statements are already depending on GCC_VERSION, maybe we can just
> unify all gcc specific headers to one, still trying to keep the file
> organized? ;)

Maybe something like:

gnu development of gcc will be more frequent and the use of
compiler-gcc<major>.h likely will not be convenient anymore.

Integrate the individual compiler-gcc<major>.h files into
compiler-gcc.h.
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h  | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h |  23 ---------
 include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h |  88 --------------------------------
 3 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 02ae99e..ec73109 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -100,10 +100,115 @@
 #define __maybe_unused			__attribute__((unused))
 #define __always_unused			__attribute__((unused))
 
-#define __gcc_header(x) #x
-#define _gcc_header(x) __gcc_header(linux/compiler-gcc##x.h)
-#define gcc_header(x) _gcc_header(x)
-#include gcc_header(__GNUC__)
+/* gcc version specific checks */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION < 30200
+# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION < 30300
+# define __used			__attribute__((__unused__))
+#else
+# define __used			__attribute__((__used__))
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
+# if GCC_VERSION < 30400
+#   error "GCOV profiling support for gcc versions below 3.4 not included"
+# endif /* __GNUC_MINOR__ */
+#endif /* CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 30400
+#define __must_check		__attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40000
+
+/* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+# if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 &&  GCC_VERSION <= 40101
+#  error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
+# endif
+#endif
+
+#define __used			__attribute__((__used__))
+#define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b)
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 && GCC_VERSION < 40600
+# define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40300
+/* Mark functions as cold. gcc will assume any path leading to a call
+   to them will be unlikely.  This means a lot of manual unlikely()s
+   are unnecessary now for any paths leading to the usual suspects
+   like BUG(), printk(), panic() etc. [but let's keep them for now for
+   older compilers]
+
+   Early snapshots of gcc 4.3 don't support this and we can't detect this
+   in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're unreleased.
+   Maketime probing would be overkill here.
+
+   gcc also has a __attribute__((__hot__)) to move hot functions into
+   a special section, but I don't see any sense in this right now in
+   the kernel context */
+#define __cold			__attribute__((__cold__))
+
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
+#ifndef __CHECKER__
+# define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
+# define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
+#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40300 */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40500
+/*
+ * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to
+ * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
+ * control elsewhere.
+ *
+ * Early snapshots of gcc 4.5 don't support this and we can't detect
+ * this in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're
+ * unreleased.  Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
+ */
+#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
+
+/* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
+#define __noclone	__attribute__((__noclone__))
+
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40500 */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40600
+/*
+ * Tell the optimizer that something else uses this function or variable.
+ */
+#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * GCC 'asm goto' miscompiles certain code sequences:
+ *
+ *   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
+ *
+ * Work it around via a compiler barrier quirk suggested by Jakub Jelinek.
+ * Fixed in GCC 4.8.2 and later versions.
+ *
+ * (asm goto is automatically volatile - the naming reflects this.)
+ */
+#define asm_volatile_goto(x...)	do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40400
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
+#endif
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40800 || (defined(__powerpc__) && GCC_VERSION >= 40600)
+#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
+#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP */
+
+#endif	/* gcc version specific checks */
 
 #if !defined(__noclone)
 #define __noclone	/* not needed */
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d89feb..0000000
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
-#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc3.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
-#endif
-
-#if GCC_VERSION < 30200
-# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
-#endif
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 30300
-# define __used			__attribute__((__used__))
-#else
-# define __used			__attribute__((__unused__))
-#endif
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 30400
-#define __must_check		__attribute__((warn_unused_result))
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
-# if GCC_VERSION < 30400
-#   error "GCOV profiling support for gcc versions below 3.4 not included"
-# endif /* __GNUC_MINOR__ */
-#endif /* CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL */
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 2507fd2..0000000
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
-#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc4.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
-#endif
-
-/* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-# if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 &&  GCC_VERSION <= 40101
-#  error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
-# endif
-#endif
-
-#define __used			__attribute__((__used__))
-#define __must_check 		__attribute__((warn_unused_result))
-#define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b)
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 && GCC_VERSION < 40600
-# define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
-#endif
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40300
-/* Mark functions as cold. gcc will assume any path leading to a call
-   to them will be unlikely.  This means a lot of manual unlikely()s
-   are unnecessary now for any paths leading to the usual suspects
-   like BUG(), printk(), panic() etc. [but let's keep them for now for
-   older compilers]
-
-   Early snapshots of gcc 4.3 don't support this and we can't detect this
-   in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're unreleased.
-   Maketime probing would be overkill here.
-
-   gcc also has a __attribute__((__hot__)) to move hot functions into
-   a special section, but I don't see any sense in this right now in
-   the kernel context */
-#define __cold			__attribute__((__cold__))
-
-#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
-
-#ifndef __CHECKER__
-# define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
-# define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
-#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
-#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40300 */
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40500
-/*
- * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to
- * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
- * control elsewhere.
- *
- * Early snapshots of gcc 4.5 don't support this and we can't detect
- * this in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're
- * unreleased.  Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
- */
-#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
-
-/* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
-#define __noclone	__attribute__((__noclone__))
-
-#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40500 */
-
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40600
-/*
- * Tell the optimizer that something else uses this function or variable.
- */
-#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))
-#endif
-
-/*
- * GCC 'asm goto' miscompiles certain code sequences:
- *
- *   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
- *
- * Work it around via a compiler barrier quirk suggested by Jakub Jelinek.
- * Fixed in GCC 4.8.2 and later versions.
- *
- * (asm goto is automatically volatile - the naming reflects this.)
- */
-#define asm_volatile_goto(x...)	do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40400
-#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
-#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
-#endif
-#if GCC_VERSION >= 40800 || (defined(__powerpc__) && GCC_VERSION >= 40600)
-#define __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
-#endif
-#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP */
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