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Nick Desaulniers
76ae847497 Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1
commit fad7cd3310 ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in
__nbd_ioctl()") raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in
commit f0907827a8 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and
add fallback code")

Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a
multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow,
__signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when
!COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW.  This is problematic for 64b
operands on 32b hosts.

Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write
a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of:
 * div64_s64
 * div64_u64
 * div_s64
 * div_u64

Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the
fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead
dispatching the compiler builtins.

arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do
this for all targets now.  See the link below for the previous
discussion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-13 10:18:28 -07:00
Nathan Chancellor
e2bc3e91d9 scripts/min-tool-version.sh: Raise minimum clang version to 13.0.0 for s390
clang versions prior to the current development version of 13.0.0 cannot
compile s390 after commit 3abbdfde5a65 ("s390/bitops: use register pair
instead of register asm") and the s390 maintainers do not intend to work
around this in the kernel. Codify this in scripts/min-tool-version.sh
similar to arm64 with GCC 5.1.0 so that there are no reports of broken
builds.

[hca@linux.ibm.com: breaking compatibility with older clang compilers
 is intended to finally make use of a feature which allows the
 compiler to allocate even/odd register pairs. This is possible since
 a very long time with gcc, but only since llvm-project commit
 d058262b1471 ("[SystemZ] Support i128 inline asm operands.") with
 clang. Using that feature allows to get rid of error prone register
 asm statements, of which the above named kernel commit is only the
 first of a larger not yet complete series.]

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617193139.856957-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-28 11:18:28 +02:00
Masahiro Yamada
e24b3ffcf4 kbuild: collect minimum tool versions into scripts/min-tool-version.sh
The kernel build uses various tools, many of which are provided by the
same software suite, for example, LLVM and Binutils.

When you raise the minimum version of Clang/LLVM, you need to update
clang_min_version in scripts/cc-version.sh and also lld_min_version in
scripts/ld-version.sh.

Kbuild can handle CC=clang and LD=ld.lld independently, but it does not
make much sense to maintain their versions separately.

Let's create a central place of minimum tool versions so you do not need
to touch multiple files. scripts/min-tool-version.sh prints the minimum
version of the given tool.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
2021-04-25 05:14:26 +09:00