objtool: Skip unreachable warnings for GCC 4.4 and older

The kbuild bot occasionally reports warnings like:

  drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_core.o: warning: objtool: seldo_run()+0x130: unreachable instruction

These warnings are always with GCC 4.4.  That version of GCC sometimes
places unreachable instructions after calls to noreturn functions.

The unreachable warnings aren't very important anyway.  Just ignore them
for old versions of GCC.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc89b807d965b98ec18a0bb94f96a594bd58f2f2.1506551639.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 2e3a10e..061d0c3 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ objtool_args += --no-fp
 endif
 ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
 objtool_args += --no-unreachable
+else
+objtool_args += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, --no-unreachable)
 endif
 
 # 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y': skip objtool checking for a directory