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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 01:56:19 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:32 AM 'Sami Tolvanen' via Clang Built Linux
<clang-built-linux@...glegroups.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's
> Pixel devices have shipped with LTO+CFI kernels 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 first objtool patch in the series is already in linux-next,
> but as it's needed with LTO, I'm including it also here to make testing
> easier.
I put this series on a testing branch,
and 0-day bot started reporting some issues.
(but 0-day bot is quieter than I expected.
Perhaps, 0-day bot does not turn on LLVM=1 ?)
I also got an error for
ARCH=arm64 allyesconfig + CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y
$ make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
CROSS_COMPILE=~/tools/aarch64-linaro-7.5/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-
-j24
...
GEN .version
CHK include/generated/compile.h
UPD include/generated/compile.h
CC init/version.o
AR init/built-in.a
GEN .tmp_initcalls.lds
GEN .tmp_symversions.lds
LTO vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo
GEN modules.builtin
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __compiletime_assert_905
>>> referenced by irqbypass.c
>>> vmlinux.o:(jeq_imm)
make: *** [Makefile:1161: vmlinux] Error 1
> Sami Tolvanen (22):
> objtool: use sh_info to find the base for .rela sections
> kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
> kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
> kbuild: lto: fix recordmcount
> 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: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
> 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
> arm64: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected
> x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO
> x86, ftrace: disable recordmcount for ftrace_make_nop
> x86, relocs: Ignore L4_PAGE_OFFSET relocations
> x86, build: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected
>
> .gitignore | 1 +
> Makefile | 27 ++-
> arch/Kconfig | 65 +++++++
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +
> arch/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 4 +-
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +
> arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +
> arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 5 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 1 +
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 2 +
> drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile | 1 +
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 12 +-
> include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 4 +
> include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/compiler_types.h | 4 +
> include/linux/init.h | 78 +++++++-
> include/linux/pci.h | 15 +-
> kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 +
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> scripts/Makefile.build | 55 +++++-
> scripts/Makefile.lib | 6 +-
> scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 40 +++-
> scripts/Makefile.modpost | 26 ++-
> scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl | 270 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 100 +++++++++-
> scripts/mod/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 16 +-
> scripts/mod/modpost.h | 9 +
> scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 6 +-
> scripts/module-lto.lds | 26 +++
> scripts/recordmcount.c | 3 +-
> tools/objtool/elf.c | 2 +-
> 34 files changed, 737 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl
> create mode 100644 scripts/module-lto.lds
>
>
> base-commit: 26e122e97a3d0390ebec389347f64f3730fdf48f
> --
> 2.27.0.212.ge8ba1cc988-goog
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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