On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:53:52PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:32 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > > index ac2c61c37a73..0c7fe6fb2143 100644 > > --- a/Makefile > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -886,6 +886,22 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_SCS) > > export CC_FLAGS_SCS > > endif > > > > +ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG > > +ifdef CONFIG_THINLTO > > +CC_FLAGS_LTO_CLANG := -flto=thin $(call cc-option, -fsplit-lto-unit) > > The kconfig change gates this on clang-11; do we still need the > cc-option check here, or can we hardcode the use of -fsplit-lto-unit? > Playing with the flag in godbolt, it looks like clang-8 had support > for this flag. True, we don't need cc-option here anymore. I'll remove it, thanks. > > +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --thinlto-cache-dir=.thinlto-cache > > It might be nice to have `make distclean` or even `make clean` scrub > the .thinlto-cache? Also, I verified that the `.gitignore` rule for > `.*` properly ignores this dir. Sure, distclean sounds appropriate to me. Sami
