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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/28] Add support for Clang LTO
    Hey Ian,
    It was nice to meet you at Linux plumbers. You might want to take a
    look at this series. It implements builds of the Linux kernel with
    LTO. It would be good to get eyes on it and help review it from folks
    working on this from the GCC angle. The series has some configs that
    split where Clang specific changes need to be made; it might be of
    interest to think about what would the similar changes be needed for
    GCC. Also, congrats on your LWN article!
    https://lwn.net/Articles/830300/

    On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.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 1-4 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 are required for building the kernel with ToT Clang,
    > and IAS, and patch 4 is needed to build allmodconfig with LTO.
    >
    > - Patches 3-4 are already in linux-next, but not yet in 5.9-rc.
    >
    > ---
    > Changes in v2:
    >
    > - Fixed -Wmissing-prototypes warnings with W=1.
    >
    > - Dropped cc-option from -fsplit-lto-unit and added .thinlto-cache
    > scrubbing to make distclean.
    >
    > - Added a comment about Clang >=11 being required.
    >
    > - Added a patch to disable LTO for the arm64 KVM nVHE code.
    >
    > - Disabled objtool's noinstr validation with LTO unless enabled.
    >
    > - Included Peter's proposed objtool mcount patch in the series
    > and replaced recordmcount with the objtool pass to avoid
    > whitelisting relocations that are not calls.
    >
    > - Updated several commit messages with better explanations.
    >
    >
    > Arvind Sankar (2):
    > x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation
    > x86/asm: Replace __force_order with memory clobber
    >
    > Luca Stefani (1):
    > RAS/CEC: Fix cec_init() prototype
    >
    > Nick Desaulniers (1):
    > lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
    >
    > Peter Zijlstra (1):
    > objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
    >
    > Sami Tolvanen (23):
    > objtool: Don't autodetect vmlinux.o
    > kbuild: add support for objtool mcount
    > x86, build: use objtool mcount
    > kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
    > kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
    > kbuild: lto: postpone objtool
    > kbuild: lto: limit inlining
    > kbuild: lto: merge module sections
    > kbuild: lto: remove duplicate dependencies from .mod files
    > init: lto: ensure initcall ordering
    > init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
    > PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO
    > modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names
    > scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
    > efi/libstub: disable LTO
    > drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o
    > arm64: export CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
    > arm64: vdso: disable LTO
    > KVM: arm64: disable LTO for the nVHE directory
    > arm64: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected
    > x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO
    > x86, relocs: Ignore L4_PAGE_OFFSET relocations
    > x86, build: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected
    >
    > .gitignore | 1 +
    > Makefile | 65 ++++++-
    > arch/Kconfig | 67 +++++++
    > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +
    > arch/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
    > arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 4 +-
    > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile | 4 +-
    > arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +
    > arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +
    > arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +
    > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 9 -
    > arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 5 +-
    > arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 28 +--
    > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 +-
    > arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 1 +
    > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 2 +
    > drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile | 1 +
    > drivers/ras/cec.c | 9 +-
    > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 11 +-
    > include/linux/init.h | 79 +++++++-
    > include/linux/pci.h | 19 +-
    > kernel/trace/Kconfig | 5 +
    > lib/string.c | 24 +++
    > scripts/Makefile.build | 55 +++++-
    > scripts/Makefile.lib | 6 +-
    > scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 31 ++-
    > scripts/Makefile.modpost | 26 ++-
    > scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl | 270 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    > scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 94 ++++++++-
    > scripts/mod/Makefile | 1 +
    > scripts/mod/modpost.c | 16 +-
    > scripts/mod/modpost.h | 9 +
    > scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 6 +-
    > scripts/module-lto.lds | 26 +++
    > tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 13 +-
    > tools/objtool/builtin.h | 2 +-
    > tools/objtool/check.c | 83 ++++++++
    > tools/objtool/check.h | 1 +
    > tools/objtool/objtool.h | 1 +
    > 39 files changed, 883 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
    > create mode 100755 scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl
    > create mode 100644 scripts/module-lto.lds
    >
    >
    > base-commit: e28f0104343d0c132fa37f479870c9e43355fee4
    > --
    > 2.28.0.402.g5ffc5be6b7-goog
    >


    --
    Thanks,
    ~Nick Desaulniers

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