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kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

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This change adds build system support for Clang's Link Time
Optimization (LTO). With -flto, instead of ELF object files, Clang
produces LLVM bitcode, which is compiled into native code at link
time, allowing the final binary to be optimized globally. For more
details, see:

  https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html

The Kconfig option CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is implemented as a choice,
which defaults to LTO being disabled. To use LTO, the architecture
must select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG and support:

  - compiling with Clang,
  - compiling all assembly code with Clang's integrated assembler,
  - and linking with LLD.

While using CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL results in the best runtime
performance, the compilation is not scalable in time or
memory. CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN enables ThinLTO, which allows
parallel optimization and faster incremental builds. ThinLTO is
used by default if the architecture also selects
ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html

To enable LTO, LLVM tools must be used to handle bitcode files, by
passing LLVM=1 and LLVM_IAS=1 options to make:

  $ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
  $ scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
  $ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

To prepare for LTO support with other compilers, common parts are
gated behind the CONFIG_LTO option, and LTO can be disabled for
specific files by filtering out CC_FLAGS_LTO.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-3-samitolvanen@google.com
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Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 10:46:19 -08:00
committed by Kees Cook
parent 3b15cdc159
commit dc5723b02e
7 changed files with 174 additions and 18 deletions
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scripts/Makefile.modpost
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@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ __modpost:
include include/config/auto.conf
include scripts/Kbuild.include
# for ld_flags
include scripts/Makefile.lib
MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a) \
@@ -102,12 +105,26 @@ $(input-symdump):
@echo >&2 'WARNING: Symbol version dump "$@" is missing.'
@echo >&2 ' Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.'
ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
# With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, .o files might be LLVM bitcode, so we need to run
# LTO to compile them into native code before running modpost
prelink-ext := .lto
quiet_cmd_cc_lto_link_modules = LTO [M] $@
cmd_cc_lto_link_modules = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ --whole-archive $^
%.lto.o: %.o
$(call if_changed,cc_lto_link_modules)
endif
modules := $(sort $(shell cat $(MODORDER)))
# Read out modules.order to pass in modpost.
# Otherwise, allmodconfig would fail with "Argument list too long".
quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $@
cmd_modpost = sed 's/ko$$/o/' $< | $(MODPOST) -T -
cmd_modpost = sed 's/\.ko$$/$(prelink-ext)\.o/' $< | $(MODPOST) -T -
$(output-symdump): $(MODORDER) $(input-symdump) FORCE
$(output-symdump): $(MODORDER) $(input-symdump) $(modules:.ko=$(prelink-ext).o) FORCE
$(call if_changed,modpost)
targets += $(output-symdump)