[PATCH v7 00/17] Add support for Clang LTO

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 8:04 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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].
>
> Sami,
>
> Here are some patches to fix the objtool issues (other than crypto which
> I'll work on next).
>
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux.git objtool-vmlinux

Thanks, Josh! I can confirm that these fix all the non-crypto objtool
warnings with LTO as well.

Sami