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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:53:52 +0000
From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
James Y Knight <jyknight@...gle.com>,
Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@...gle.com>,
Stephen Hines <srhines@...gle.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>, groeck@...omium.org,
Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:38 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> There are known-bugs with building a kernel with clang right now (I
> pointed one out a few days ago about NULL checks being deleted from the
> clang output for no good reason, which really is scary for obvious
> reasons).
Is this the thread you are referring to?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/27/1286
It's definitely something curious that I'll need to sit down and
investigate more. If there are other known instances, it would be good to
let me know.
> So while it is great that small subsets of the kernel can
> work properly (or hopefully properly), with clang, it still isn't ready
> to be considered a "fully supported and we can't change the kernel if we
> break using it" option, sorry.
> And don't tie _anything_ to a LTS kernel, that's exactly what those
> kernels are NOT for. You implement features and things in the kernel
> when they are ready, and I'll pick a random LTS kernel out of the air
> when I feel like it. Never should the two intersect and matter.
> So please, work on fixing up clang for asm-goto and other "features"
> that the kernel requires, and maybe when all build options/configs are
> really solid and working well, will we be able to properly consider it
> as a reason to implement, or not implement, something in the kernel
> source.
Acknowledged.
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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