Patch "compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
compiler-gcc.h-introduce-__optimize-function-attribute.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:21:58 +0100
Subject: compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

commit df5d45aa08f848b79caf395211b222790534ccc7 upstream.

Create a new function attribute __optimize, which allows to specify an optimization level on a per-function basis.

---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    4 ++++
 include/linux/compiler.h     |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@
 #endif /* __CHECKER__ */
 #endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40300 */
 
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40400
+#define __optimize(level)	__attribute__((__optimize__(level)))
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40400 */
+
 #if GCC_VERSION >= 40500
 
 #ifndef __CHECKER__

@@ -266,6 +266,10 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
+#ifndef __optimize
+# define __optimize(level)
+#endif
+
 /* Compile time object size, -1 for unknown */
 #ifndef __compiletime_object_size
 # define __compiletime_object_size(obj) -1

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/compiler-gcc.h-__nostackprotector-needs-gcc-4.4-and-up.patch queue-4.14/compiler-gcc.h-introduce-__optimize-function-attribute.patch