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authorMiguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>2019-08-02 12:37:56 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-08-25 10:53:03 +0200
commitedc966de8725f9186cc9358214da89d335f0e0bd (patch)
treeed9eea700c377bcdeb5bb12a97abf5f6359b115a /include/linux/compiler.h
parent8a2d56eed153eb07fd3a9b2224b880af2e9d572a (diff)
Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9
This adds support for __copy to v4.9.y so that we can use it in init/exit_module to avoid -Werror=missing-attributes errors on GCC 9. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/259986242.BvXPX32bHu@devpool35/ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Suggested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index ed772311ec1f..5508011cc0c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -52,6 +52,22 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * Minimal backport of compiler_attributes.h to add support for __copy
+ * to v4.9.y so that we can use it in init/exit_module to avoid
+ * -Werror=missing-attributes errors on GCC 9.
+ */
+#ifndef __has_attribute
+# define __has_attribute(x) __GCC4_has_attribute_##x
+# define __GCC4_has_attribute___copy__ 0
+#endif
+
+#if __has_attribute(__copy__)
+# define __copy(symbol) __attribute__((__copy__(symbol)))
+#else
+# define __copy(symbol)
+#endif
+
#ifdef __GNUC__
#include <linux/compiler-gcc.h>
#endif