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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:44:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arch: enable HAS_LTO_CLANG with KASAN and KCOV
To:     Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>, Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 3:29=E2=80=AFPM Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>
> Both KASAN and KCOV had issues with LTO_CLANG if DEBUG_INFO is enabled.
> With LTO inlinable function calls are required to have debug info if
> they are inlined into a function that has debug info.
>
> Starting with LLVM 17 this will be fixed ([1],[2]) and enabling LTO with
> KASAN/KCOV and DEBUG_INFO doesn't cause linker errors anymore.
>
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/913f7e93dac67ecff47bade=
862ba42f27cb68ca9
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4a8b1249306ff11f229320a=
bdeadf0c215a00400
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

AKPM, do you mind please picking this up for us?

> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Fixed the comment linking to the Github issue
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717-enable-kasan-lto1-v2-1-d=
47bf182f5c6@gmail.com
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Added correct To:/Cc:
> - Added comment about required LLVM 17 version dependency
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717-enable-kasan-lto1-v1-1-4=
71e706a5c4e@gmail.com
> ---
>  arch/Kconfig | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index aff2746c8af2..847b52495656 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -745,7 +745,9 @@ config HAS_LTO_CLANG
>         depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
>         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
>         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
> -       depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS
> +       # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1721
> +       depends on (!KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || CLANG_VERSION >=3D 170000)=
 || !DEBUG_INFO
> +       depends on (!KCOV || CLANG_VERSION >=3D 170000) || !DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on !GCOV_KERNEL
>         help
>           The compiler and Kconfig options support building with Clang's
>
> ---
> base-commit: fdf0eaf11452d72945af31804e2a1048ee1b574c
> change-id: 20230717-enable-kasan-lto1-656754c76241
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jakob Koschel <jkl820.git@gmail.com>
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers