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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 12:59:52 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 02/10] Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline
 asm
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* Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:

> at 1:58 AM, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-09-18 23:28, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > 
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
> >> index 8f6e7eb8ae9f..944fa3bc9376 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
> >> @@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> >> KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -z max-page-size=0x200000)
> >> endif
> >> 
> >> -# Speed up the build
> >> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe
> >> +# We cannot use -pipe flag since we give an additional .s file to the compiler
> >> +#KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe
> > 
> > Is this really necessary? The gas manual says that one can use -- to
> > name stdin, though that's probably a typo and should just be - . Doing
> > 
> > gcc -pipe -Wa,foo.s -Wa,-
> 
> Good idea. I didn’t think of it. Yes, this can do the trick. I’ll do it in
> v9.

Ok, will wait for v9.

Thanks,

	Ingo