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Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Uros Bizjak , Dennis Zhou , Tejun Heo , Christoph Lameter , Mathieu Desnoyers , Paolo Bonzini , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Juergen Gross , Boris Ostrovsky , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Masahiro Yamada , Kees Cook , Nathan Chancellor , Keith Packard , Justin Stitt , Josh Poimboeuf , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim , Jiri Olsa , Ian Rogers , Adrian Hunter , Kan Liang , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev From: Ard Biesheuvel Bump the minimum GCC version to 8.1 to gain unconditional support for referring to the per-task stack cookie using a symbol rather than relying on the fixed offset of 40 bytes from %GS, which requires elaborate hacks to support. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda Acked-by: Mark Rutland --- Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index f2bebff6a733..3dda41923ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Configuring the kernel Compiling the kernel -------------------- - - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available. + - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst `. - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 00f1ed7c59c3..59b7d3d8a577 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils. ====================== =============== ======================================== Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== -GNU C 5.1 gcc --version +GNU C 8.1 gcc --version Clang/LLVM (optional) 13.0.1 clang --version Rust (optional) 1.78.0 rustc --version bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version