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| author | Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> | 2020-12-11 10:46:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2021-01-14 08:21:08 -0800 |
| commit | dc5723b02e523b2c4a68667f7e28c65018f7202f (patch) | |
| tree | e31da4c11f359712314d351d6b4281739785adfe /Makefile | |
| parent | 3b15cdc15956673ba1551d79bceae471436ac6a9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-dc5723b02e523b2c4a68667f7e28c65018f7202f.tar.gz lwn-dc5723b02e523b2c4a68667f7e28c65018f7202f.zip | |
kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
This change adds build system support for Clang's Link Time
Optimization (LTO). With -flto, instead of ELF object files, Clang
produces LLVM bitcode, which is compiled into native code at link
time, allowing the final binary to be optimized globally. For more
details, see:
https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
The Kconfig option CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is implemented as a choice,
which defaults to LTO being disabled. To use LTO, the architecture
must select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG and support:
- compiling with Clang,
- compiling all assembly code with Clang's integrated assembler,
- and linking with LLD.
While using CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL results in the best runtime
performance, the compilation is not scalable in time or
memory. CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN enables ThinLTO, which allows
parallel optimization and faster incremental builds. ThinLTO is
used by default if the architecture also selects
ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html
To enable LTO, LLVM tools must be used to handle bitcode files, by
passing LLVM=1 and LLVM_IAS=1 options to make:
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
$ scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
To prepare for LTO support with other compilers, common parts are
gated behind the CONFIG_LTO option, and LTO can be disabled for
specific files by filtering out CC_FLAGS_LTO.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-3-samitolvanen@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -893,6 +893,21 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_SCS) export CC_FLAGS_SCS endif +ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG +ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN +CC_FLAGS_LTO += -flto=thin -fsplit-lto-unit +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --thinlto-cache-dir=$(extmod-prefix).thinlto-cache +else +CC_FLAGS_LTO += -flto +endif +CC_FLAGS_LTO += -fvisibility=hidden +endif + +ifdef CONFIG_LTO +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_LTO) +export CC_FLAGS_LTO +endif + ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_32B KBUILD_CFLAGS += -falign-functions=32 endif @@ -1479,7 +1494,7 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += include/config include/generated \ *.spec # Directories & files removed with 'make distclean' -DISTCLEAN_FILES += tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS +DISTCLEAN_FILES += tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS .thinlto-cache # clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules # @@ -1725,7 +1740,7 @@ PHONY += compile_commands.json clean-dirs := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) clean: rm-files := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.nsdeps \ - $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/compile_commands.json + $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/compile_commands.json $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/.thinlto-cache PHONY += help help: |