Revert "kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants"

This reverts commit 87e0d4f.

-fno-merge-all-constants has been the default since clang-6; the minimum
supported version of clang in the kernel is clang-10 (10.0.1).

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/rL329300.
Link: ClangBuiltLinux#9
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Makefile

@@ -921,15 +921,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, maybe-uninitialized)
 # disable invalid "can't wrap" optimizations for signed / pointers
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-strict-overflow)
 
-# clang sets -fmerge-all-constants by default as optimization, but this
-# is non-conforming behavior for C and in fact breaks the kernel, so we
-# need to disable it here generally.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-merge-all-constants)
-
-# for gcc -fno-merge-all-constants disables everything, but it is fine
-# to have actual conforming behavior enabled.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fmerge-constants)
-
 # Make sure -fstack-check isn't enabled (like gentoo apparently did)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,-fno-stack-check,)