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    kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 · 16fd20aa
    Paul Burton authored
    When building using GCC 4.7 or older, -ffunction-sections & the -pg flag
    used by ftrace are incompatible. This causes warnings or build failures
    (where -Werror applies) such as the following:
    
      arch/mips/generic/init.c:
        error: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible
    
    This used to be taken into account by the ordering of calls to cc-option
    from within the top-level Makefile, which was introduced by commit
    90ad4052 ("kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and
    -pg on gcc-4.7"). Unfortunately this was broken when the
    CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION cc-option check was moved to
    Kconfig in commit e85d1d65
    
     ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination
    support in Kconfig"), because the flags used by this check no longer
    include -pg.
    
    Fix this by not allowing CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be
    enabled at the same time as ftrace/CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER when building
    using GCC 4.7 or older.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
    Fixes: e85d1d65
    
     ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig")
    Reported-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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