linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/22] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

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Message-ID: <20200624212902.GA26253@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:29:02 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:53:52PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:32 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index ac2c61c37a73..0c7fe6fb2143 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -886,6 +886,22 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS      += $(CC_FLAGS_SCS)
> >  export CC_FLAGS_SCS
> >  endif
> >
> > +ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
> > +ifdef CONFIG_THINLTO
> > +CC_FLAGS_LTO_CLANG := -flto=thin $(call cc-option, -fsplit-lto-unit)
> 
> The kconfig change gates this on clang-11; do we still need the
> cc-option check here, or can we hardcode the use of -fsplit-lto-unit?
> Playing with the flag in godbolt, it looks like clang-8 had support
> for this flag.

True, we don't need cc-option here anymore. I'll remove it, thanks.

> > +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --thinlto-cache-dir=.thinlto-cache
> 
> It might be nice to have `make distclean` or even `make clean` scrub
> the .thinlto-cache?  Also, I verified that the `.gitignore` rule for
> `.*` properly ignores this dir.

Sure, distclean sounds appropriate to me.

Sami