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Message-ID: <20201130120130.GF24563@willie-the-truck>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:01:31 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/17] Add support for Clang LTO
Hi Sami,
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:07:14PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> This patch series adds support for building the kernel 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 v7 brings back arm64 support as Will has now staged the
> prerequisite memory ordering patches [1], and drops x86_64 while we work
> on fixing the remaining objtool warnings [2].
Sounds like you're going to post a v8, but that's the plan for merging
that? The arm64 parts look pretty good to me now.
Will
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