On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 01:55:34PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Dear Stable Kernel Maintainers,
> Please consider applying the attached mbox file to v5.10.y.
>
> For Android's T release in 2022, I'd like to verify whether clang's
> integrated assembler was used. For the compiler and linker, they both
> embed a string in object file that can be read via:
>
> $ llvm-readelf -p .comment <object file>
> String dump of section '.comment':
> [ 0] Linker: LLD 14.0.0
> [ 13] clang version 14.0.0 (git@xxxxxxxxxx:llvm/llvm-project.git
> 2ff26d0e794ab7300d94051f91be7da274cc348e)
>
> Unfortunately, the assembler version is not also embedded. Instead,
> I'd like to check for the presence of AS_IS_LLVM in .config. This
> series helps move some toolchain version checking from build time to
> configure time, though that's only a modest improvement and I don't
> _have_ to check this config.
>
> The mbox contains the following 7 commits:
>
> 1. commit 052c805a1851 ("kbuild: LD_VERSION redenomination")
> 2. commit aec6c60a01d3 ("kbuild: check the minimum compiler version in Kconfig")
> 3. commit 02aff8592204 ("kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig")
> 4. commit 1f09af062556 ("kbuild: Fix ld-version.sh script if LLD was
> built with LLD_VENDOR")
> 5. commit bcbcf50f5218 ("kbuild: fix ld-version.sh to not be affected
> by locale")
> 6. commit e24b3ffcf421 ("kbuild: collect minimum tool versions into
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh")
> 7. commit ba64beb17493 ("kbuild: check the minimum assembler version
> in Kconfig")
>
> They landed respectively upstream in:
> 1. v5.12-rc1
> 2. v5.12-rc1
> 3. v5.12-rc1
> 4. v5.12-rc3
> 5. v5.12-rc3
> 6. v5.13-rc1
> 7. v5.13-rc1
>
> I needed to manually resolve conflicts in the respective patches:
> 1. N/A
> 2. N/A
> 3. scripts/lld-version.sh due to df58fb431aa3
> ("scripts/lld-version.sh: Rewrite based on upstream ld-version.sh")
> being 5.10 only. This file is removed regardless of what it looks
> like.
> 4. N/A
> 5. N/A
> 6. N/A
> 7. arch/Kconfig due to missing dc5723b02e523 ("kbuild: add support for
> Clang LTO") which landed in v5.12-rc1.
While I can appreciate your quest to make your Android kernel trees
smaller, this really looks like a "new feature". What bug/issue is this
fixing that is currently present in 5.10 that people are hitting today?
thanks,
greg k-h
