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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 /scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | |
| parent | 3b15cdc15956673ba1551d79bceae471436ac6a9 (diff) | |
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 'scripts/link-vmlinux.sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 32 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh index 6eded325c837..596507573a48 100755 --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh @@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ modpost_link() ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \ --end-group" + if [ -n "${CONFIG_LTO_CLANG}" ]; then + # This might take a while, so indicate that we're doing + # an LTO link + info LTO ${1} + else + info LD ${1} + fi + ${LD} ${KBUILD_LDFLAGS} -r -o ${1} ${objects} } @@ -103,13 +111,22 @@ vmlinux_link() fi if [ "${SRCARCH}" != "um" ]; then - objects="--whole-archive \ - ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} \ - --no-whole-archive \ - --start-group \ - ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \ - --end-group \ - ${@}" + if [ -n "${CONFIG_LTO_CLANG}" ]; then + # Use vmlinux.o instead of performing the slow LTO + # link again. + objects="--whole-archive \ + vmlinux.o \ + --no-whole-archive \ + ${@}" + else + objects="--whole-archive \ + ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} \ + --no-whole-archive \ + --start-group \ + ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \ + --end-group \ + ${@}" + fi ${LD} ${KBUILD_LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux} \ ${strip_debug#-Wl,} \ @@ -274,7 +291,6 @@ fi; ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.build" obj=init need-builtin=1 #link vmlinux.o -info LD vmlinux.o modpost_link vmlinux.o objtool_link vmlinux.o |