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Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:27:06 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:30:14PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:15:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:31:38PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > This patch series adds support for building x86_64 and arm64 kernels
> > > 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's
> > > Pixel devices have shipped with LTO+CFI kernels 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 first objtool patch in the series is already in linux-next,
> > > but as it's needed with LTO, I'm including it also here to make testing
> > > easier.
> > 
> > I'm very sad that yet again, memory ordering isn't addressed. LTO vastly
> > increases the range of the optimizer to wreck things.
> 
> I believe Will has some thoughts about this, and patches, but I'll let
> him talk about it.

Thanks for reminding me! I will get patches out ASAP (I've been avoiding the
rebase from hell, but this is the motivation I need).

Will