Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:43:41 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compiler Attributes: move kernel-only attributes into __KERNEL__ |
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > Hi Greg, Nick, Xiaozhou, > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:50 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > If something is fixed in Linus's tree for this, I want to take it into > > the 4.19-stable tree as well. > > This ended up in Linus' tree before the holidays, i.e. 4.20 has it, > see commit 71391bdd2e9a ("include/linux/compiler_types.h: don't > pollute userspace with macro definitions"). > > In case you want to still backport this to 4.19: you can't cherry-pick > it without conflicts because some stuff was moved around due to the > Compiler Attributes patch series (which also went in with 4.20 too), > but you can move the macros like this commit does. There are 2 > conflicts: > > * The big block of macros for attributes: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/include/linux/compiler_types.h?h=v4.19.16#n189 > * The __always_inline macro: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/include/linux/compiler_types.h?h=v4.19.16#n275 > > All those are nowadays inside __KERNEL__ && !__ASSEMBLY__, so it > should be fine to move those too along the rest that this patch moves.
I have no idea why I would want to backport this, sorry :(
If this resolves a problem, great, but someone has to do the backport for me to be able to take it.
thanks,
greg k-h
> > Cheers, > Miguel
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