linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 10/30] perf clang: Add builtin clang support ant test case

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Date:   Sat, 26 Nov 2016 09:17:16 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc:     acme@...hat.com, ast@...com, lizefan@...wei.com,
        hekuang@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pi3orama@....com,
        joe@....org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/30] perf clang: Add builtin clang support ant test
 case

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 07:03:34AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> Add basic clang support in clang.cpp and test__clang() testcase. The
> first testcase checks if builtin clang is able to generate LLVM IR.
> 
> tests/clang.c is a proxy. Real testcase resides in
> utils/c++/clang-test.cpp in c++ and exports C interface to perf test
> subsystem.
> 
> Test result:
> 
>    $ perf test -v clang
>    51: Test builtin clang support                               :
>    51.1: Test builtin clang compile C source to IR              :
>    --- start ---
>    test child forked, pid 13215
>    test child finished with 0
>    ---- end ----
>    Test builtin clang support subtest 0: Ok
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
...
> +static CompilerInvocation *
> +createCompilerInvocation(StringRef& Path, DiagnosticsEngine& Diags)
> +{
> +	llvm::opt::ArgStringList CCArgs {
> +		"-cc1",
> +		"-triple", "bpf-pc-linux",
> +		"-fsyntax-only",
> +		"-ferror-limit", "19",
> +		"-fmessage-length", "127",

why such limits?

> +		"-O2",
> +		"-nostdsysteminc",
> +		"-nobuiltininc",
> +		"-vectorize-loops",
> +		"-vectorize-slp",

why above two flags are needed?

> +		"-Wno-unused-value",
> +		"-Wno-pointer-sign",

these two -Wno makes sense. please add the comment to explain the reasons.