x86: Force asm-goto
We want to start using asm-goto to guarantee the absence of dynamic
branches (and thus speculation).
A primary prerequisite for this is of course that the compiler
supports asm-goto. This effecively lifts the minimum GCC version to
build an x86 kernel to gcc-4.5.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319201327.GJ4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d65e2e2..6fb6fd2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -494,6 +494,13 @@
RETPOLINE_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC),$(call cc-option,$(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_CLANG)))
export RETPOLINE_CFLAGS
+# check for 'asm goto'
+ifeq ($(call shell-cached,$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)), y)
+ CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO := 1
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
+endif
+
ifeq ($(config-targets),1)
# ===========================================================================
# *config targets only - make sure prerequisites are updated, and descend
@@ -658,12 +665,6 @@
# Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
-# check for 'asm goto'
-ifeq ($(call shell-cached,$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)), y)
- KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
- KBUILD_AFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
-endif
-
include scripts/Makefile.kcov
include scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins