[PATCH 0/4] Make gcc-8.1 and binutils-2.30 the minimum version

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:41:12AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> x86 already requires gcc-8.1 since linux-6.15-rc1, which led me to
> actually go through all  version checks and make this is the minimum
> for all architectures.

I am very much in favour of this, so for the series:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Is the aim to get this in for v6.15?

I believe this will permit a number of further cleanups for arm64, and
if it's possible to get this in for v6.15, it'd be a bit easier to start
preparing those for v6.16. No big problem if that's not the case.

Mark.

> 
> Most of the actual resulting changes are actually for raising the
> binutils version, which eliminates version checks on x86 and arm64.
> 
> Arnd Bergmann (4):
>   kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
>   raid6: skip avx512 checks
>   x86: remove checks for binutils-2.30 and earlier
>   arm64: drop binutils version checks
> 
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst at gmail.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas at fjasle.eu>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-crypto at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kbuild at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-raid at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: x86 at kernel.org
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst          |  2 +-
>  Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst            |  4 +-
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst             |  4 +-
>  .../translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst    |  4 +-
>  .../translations/zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                            | 37 +--------------
>  arch/arm64/Makefile                           | 21 +--------
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h               |  4 --
>  arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig                        |  1 -
>  arch/arm64/lib/xor-neon.c                     |  2 +-
>  arch/um/Makefile                              |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler                    | 29 ------------
>  arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig                       |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/Makefile                      | 12 +++--
>  arch/x86/crypto/aes-ctr-avx-x86_64.S          |  2 -
>  arch/x86/crypto/aes-xts-avx-x86_64.S          |  2 -
>  arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c            | 21 +--------
>  arch/x86/crypto/aria-aesni-avx-asm_64.S       | 10 -----
>  arch/x86/crypto/aria-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S      | 10 +----
>  arch/x86/crypto/aria_aesni_avx2_glue.c        |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/aria_aesni_avx_glue.c         |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/blake2s-core.S                |  4 --
>  arch/x86/crypto/blake2s-glue.c                |  6 +--
>  arch/x86/crypto/chacha_glue.c                 |  6 +--
>  arch/x86/crypto/poly1305-x86_64-cryptogams.pl |  8 ----
>  arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c               |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c             | 10 -----
>  arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c           | 10 -----
>  include/linux/unroll.h                        |  4 +-
>  kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c                         |  4 --
>  lib/raid6/algos.c                             |  6 ---
>  lib/raid6/avx512.c                            |  4 --
>  lib/raid6/recov_avx512.c                      |  6 ---
>  lib/raid6/test/Makefile                       |  3 --
>  lib/test_fortify/Makefile                     |  5 +--
>  scripts/Makefile.compiler                     |  2 +-
>  scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h              | 45 -------------------
>  scripts/min-tool-version.sh                   |  6 +--
>  38 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-)
> 
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