On 16 November 2017 at 23:09, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:14:17PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> OK, so my concern here is that this code probably only operates on >> fully linked binaries, and not partially linked object files like >> kernel modules. > > Right. That makes sense. > >> What is preventing us from using the large model with clang? > > We pass -mcmodel=large to clang, but I just confirmed that the > attribute isn't stored in LLVM IR, which means it's not used during > link time compilation. I'll see if we can solve this problem by > passing the correct code model directly to LLVMgold instead. Thanks > for pointing this out. > So at which point is the IR in a partially linked object file converted into executable code? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
