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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-30 13:05:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-30 13:05:30 -0700
commit22d3e0c36e10296da91e3bb8826592bacfbf4b9c (patch)
tree6148e2c2d60a255c33fffaf13f8eb48a42288445 /init
parent0fbc4aeabc91f2e39e0dffebe8f81a0eb3648d97 (diff)
parent73d1c580f92b203f4c3a189ee98c917c65712f7e (diff)
downloadlinux-22d3e0c36e10296da91e3bb8826592bacfbf4b9c.tar.gz
Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:

 - introduce __diag_* macros and suppress -Wattribute-alias warnings
   from GCC 8

 - fix stack protector test script for x86_64

 - fix line number handling in Kconfig

 - document that '#' starts a comment in Kconfig

 - handle P_SYMBOL property in dump debugging of Kconfig

 - correct help message of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

 - fix occasional segmentation faults in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: loop boundary condition fix
  kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  kconfig: handle P_SYMBOL in print_symbol()
  kconfig: document Kconfig source file comments
  kconfig: fix line numbers for if-entries in menu tree
  stack-protector: Fix test with 32-bit userland and CONFIG_64BIT=y
  powerpc: Remove -Wattribute-alias pragmas
  disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
  kbuild: add macro for controlling warnings to linux/compiler.h
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index fde3d09e8b27..041f3a022122 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1051,10 +1051,9 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	depends on EXPERT
 	help
-	  Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
-	  data elimination with the linker by compiling with
-	  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with
-	  --gc-sections.
+	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
+	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
+	  and linking with --gc-sections.
 
 	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
 	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and