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Pull compiler version requirement update from Arnd Bergmann: "Require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30 x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and binutils 2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those. Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as the system compiler but additionally include toolchains that remain supported. With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for older versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64. Importantly, the updated compiler version allows removing two of the five remaining gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak features is already included in modern compiler versions. I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible. Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches through the asm-generic tree." * tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference gcc-plugins: remove SANCOV gcc plugin Kbuild: remove structleak gcc plugin arm64: drop binutils version checks raid6: skip avx512 checks kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
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bool
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help
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An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
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GCC plugins.
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menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
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bool "GCC plugins"
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depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
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depends on CC_IS_GCC
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depends on $(success,test -e $(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)/include/plugin-version.h)
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default y
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help
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GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
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compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
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See Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst for details.
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if GCC_PLUGINS
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config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
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bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
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help
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By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
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extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
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program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
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there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
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is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
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irq processing.
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Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
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secure!
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This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
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* https://grsecurity.net/
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* https://pax.grsecurity.net/
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endif
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