linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pgo: add clang's Profile Guided Optimization infrastructure

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:21:43 +0100
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pgo: add clang's Profile Guided Optimization infrastructure

Hi,

When I looked through the code I wondered why we do not add a
"CONFIG_PGO_CLANG_PROFDATA" which can be helpful when doing the PGO
rebuild with a vmlinux.profdata.

This introduces a "PGO_PROFDATA" to turn on/off to pass
"-fprofile-use=vmlinux.profdata" (see CFLAGS_PGO_CLANG_PROFDATA in
top-level Makefile).

If we turn off via "PGO_PROFILE := n" in several Makefiles - we should
do the same and add "PGO_PROFDATA := n" to the same Makefiles?

Please see the attached diff.

Regards,
- Sedat -

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