linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs

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Date:   Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:59:07 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs

Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> writes:
> Hi Michael,
> Do you have feedback for Nathan? Rebasing these patches is becoming a
> nuisance for our CI, and we would like to keep building PPC w/ Clang.

Sorry just lost in the flood of patches.

Merged now.

cheers

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:57 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This series includes a set of fixes for LLVM/Clang when building
>> a few defconfigs (powernv, ppc44x, and pseries are the ones that our
>> CI configuration tests [1]). The first patch fixes pseries_defconfig,
>> which has never worked in mainline. The second and third patches fixes
>> issues with all of these configs due to internal changes to LLVM, which
>> point out issues with the kernel.
>>
>> These have been broken since July/August, it would be nice to get these
>> reviewed and applied. Please let me know what I can do to get these
>> applied soon so we can stop applying them out of tree.
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration
>>
>> Previous versions:
>>
>> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190911182049.77853-1-natechancellor@gmail.com/
>>
>> v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191014025101.18567-1-natechancellor@gmail.com/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers