Hi, On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:34:10PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > This series adds build system support for compiling the kernel with clang > Link Time Optimization (LTO), using GNU gold with the LLVMgold plug-in > for linking. As a high-level comment, this path series is rather confusing for maintainers, since it's a mixture of basic support, workarounds, and a new feature, and the commit messages aren't that helpful for those of us unfamiliar with clang. It would be *very* helpful if this could be split into a few smaller patch series that built atop of each other. Would it be possible to split this into: (1) (basic) arm64 clang support (2) gold support (no LTO) (3) LTO support ... with any necessary workarounds added as-required to the relevant series? I think (1) is just the clang-version, -mno-implicit-float, and KVM patches, and that might stand a chance of getting in soon. IIUC that fixes the outstanding issues with basic clang support, and would give us all a common baseline for review, testing, and future debugging. Thanks, Mark. -- 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
