Hi Sami, On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:07:14PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > This patch series adds support for building the kernel with Clang's > Link Time Optimization (LTO). In addition to performance, the primary > motivation for LTO is to allow Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to > be used in the kernel. Google has shipped millions of Pixel devices > running three major kernel versions with LTO+CFI since 2018. > > Most of the patches are build system changes for handling LLVM bitcode, > which Clang produces with LTO instead of ELF object files, postponing > ELF processing until a later stage, and ensuring initcall ordering. > > Note that v7 brings back arm64 support as Will has now staged the > prerequisite memory ordering patches [1], and drops x86_64 while we work > on fixing the remaining objtool warnings [2]. Sounds like you're going to post a v8, but that's the plan for merging that? The arm64 parts look pretty good to me now. Will
