compiler-gcc: improve version error

As Kees suggests, doing so provides developers with two useful pieces of
information:
- The kernel build was attempting to use GCC.
  (Maybe they accidentally poked the wrong configs in a CI.)
- They need 4.9 or better.
  ("Upgrade to what version?" doesn't need to be dug out of documentation,
   headers, etc.)

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-8-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 7a37690..d1e3c68 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 /* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 */
 #if GCC_VERSION < 40900
-# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
+# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer.
 #endif
 
 /* Optimization barrier */