linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/30] Add support for Clang LTO

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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:50:03 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
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        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/30] Add support for Clang LTO

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:22 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:14 PM 'Sami Tolvanen' via Clang Built Linux
> <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch series adds support for building x86_64 and arm64 kernels
> > with Clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO).
> >
> > In addition to performance, the primary motivation for LTO is
> > to allow Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be used in the
> > kernel. Google has shipped millions of Pixel devices running three
> > major kernel versions with LTO+CFI since 2018.
> >
> > Most of the patches are build system changes for handling LLVM
> > bitcode, which Clang produces with LTO instead of ELF object files,
> > postponing ELF processing until a later stage, and ensuring initcall
> > ordering.
> >
> > Note that patches 1-5 are not directly related to LTO, but are
> > needed to compile LTO kernels with ToT Clang, so I'm including them
> > in the series for your convenience:
> >
> >  - Patches 1-3 fix build issues with LLVM and they are already in
> >    linux-next.
> >
> >  - Patch 4 fixes x86 builds with LLVM IAS, but it hasn't yet been
> >    picked up by maintainers.
> >
> >  - Patch 5 is from Masahiro's kbuild tree and makes the LTO linker
> >    script changes much cleaner.
> >
>
> Hi Sami,
>
> might be good to point to your GitHub tree and corresponding
> release-tag for easy fetching.

Ah, true. You can also pull this series from

  https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux.git lto-v3

Sami