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Nick Desaulniers authored
GCC has supported asm goto since 4.5, and Clang has since version 9.0.0.
The minimum supported versions of these tools for the build according to
Documentation/process/changes.rst are 5.1 and 11.0.0 respectively.

Remove the feature detection script, Kconfig option, and clean up some
fallback code that is no longer supported.

The removed script was also testing for a GCC specific bug that was
fixed in the 4.7 release.

Also remove workarounds for bpftrace using clang older than 9.0.0, since
other BPF backend fixes are required at this point.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNATSr=BXKfkdW8f-H5VT_w=xBpT2ZQcZ7rm6JfkdE+QnmA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48637


Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Suggested-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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