[PATCH v2 00/28] Add support for Clang LTO

[Sedat Dilek]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:30 PM 'Sami Tolvanen' via Clang Built Linux
<clang-built-linux at googlegroups.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.
>

I jumped to Sami's clang-cfi Git tree which includes clang-lto v2.

My LLVM toolchain is version 11.0.0.0-rc2+ more precisely git
97ac9e82002d6b12831ca2c78f739cca65a4fa05.

If this is OK, feel free to add my...

Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>

- Sedat -

[1] https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/clang-cfi

> ---
> 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
> --
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>
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