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GCC recently added option -fmin-function-alignment, which should appear in GCC 14. Unlike -falign-functions, this option causes all functions to be aligned at the specified value, including the cold ones. In particular, when an arm64 kernel is built with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS=y, the 8-byte function alignment is required for correct functionality. This was done by -falign-functions=8 and having workarounds in the kernel to force the compiler to follow this alignment. The new -fmin-function-alignment option directly guarantees it. Detect availability of -fmin-function-alignment and use it instead of -falign-functions when present. Introduce CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT and enable __cold to work as expected when it is set. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.