Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9

I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f37729673558..40cd7016ae6f 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1161,21 +1161,10 @@ out:
 }
 
 /*
- * gcc 4.7 and 4.8 on arm get an ICEs when inlining unmap_and_move().  Work
- * around it.
- */
-#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) && \
-	defined(GCC_VERSION) && GCC_VERSION < 40900 && GCC_VERSION >= 40700
-#define ICE_noinline noinline
-#else
-#define ICE_noinline
-#endif
-
-/*
  * Obtain the lock on page, remove all ptes and migrate the page
  * to the newly allocated page in newpage.
  */
-static ICE_noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
+static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
 				   free_page_t put_new_page,
 				   unsigned long private, struct page *page,
 				   int force, enum migrate_mode mode,