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Message-ID: <20171109000222.GC8522@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 16:02:22 -0800
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
Alex Matveev <alxmtvv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] arm64: fix mrs_s/msr_s macros for clang LTO
> There's the series from Andi Kleen that enables LTO for Linux on x86:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/512548/
> https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto-411-1
>
> It has solved many problems you also try to solve, and some patches
> are looking very similar.
>
> At now we have different patchsets for gcc and clang, and it would be
> better to have them together. One thing I'm worried is that you introduce
> CONFIG_CLANG_LTO and use it for all cases, including that where more
> generic CONFIG_LTO should be used.
Yes would be good to merge the two. I've been looking at updating
my old one.
I don't cover any ARM code, but lots of generic code. My patches
also worked on MIPS at least.
There's also older patches to enable single-pass-linking for kallsyms,
which is extremly useful for LTO build performance.
-Andi
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