From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Michael Davidson <md@google.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"open list:KERNEL BUILD + fi..." <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
kbuild-all@01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:57:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170317185720.5s7qa6hl233t24ag@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+Ysvjz+UzEi0dTtsNxxnG7WXTiZPr+KSk8HHwSu7vX1ew@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:47:33PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> This problem is more general and is not specific to clang. It equally
> applies to different versions of gcc, different arches and different
> configs (namely, anything else than what a developer used for
> testing).
I guess. We do carry a bunch of gcc workarounds along with the cc-*
macros in scripts/Kbuild.include.
> A known, reasonably well working solution to this problem is
> a system of try bots that test patches before commit with different
> compilers/configs/archs. We already have such system in the form of
> 0-day bots. It would be useful to extend it with clang as soon as
> kernel builds.
Has someone actually already talked to Fengguang about it?
Oh, and the stupid question: why the effort to build the kernel
with clang at all? Just because or are there some actual, palpable
advantages?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-17 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-17 0:15 [PATCH 0/7] LLVM: make x86_64 kernel build with clang Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] Makefile, LLVM: add -no-integrated-as to KBUILD_[AC]FLAGS Michael Davidson
2017-04-03 22:49 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-21 7:49 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-17 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-04-05 18:08 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-04-05 19:01 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-05 19:11 ` Michael Davidson
2017-04-10 14:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86, LLVM: suppress clang warnings about unaligned accesses Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 23:50 ` hpa
2017-04-03 23:01 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-13 23:14 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-13 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-04-14 0:23 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-14 5:30 ` hpa
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86, boot, LLVM: #undef memcpy etc in string.c Michael Davidson
2017-06-22 22:31 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-06-22 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-06-30 18:32 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86, boot, LLVM: Use regparm=0 for memcpy and memset Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-06-22 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 12:31 ` Alexander Potapenko
2017-03-17 12:32 ` Alexander Potapenko
2017-03-17 18:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-17 18:47 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-17 18:57 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-03-17 19:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-17 19:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 19:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-24 13:50 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-24 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-24 14:22 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-18 0:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2017-03-17 12:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 18:52 ` Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 19:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 20:04 ` hpa
2017-03-24 13:47 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-24 14:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 7/7] crypto, x86, LLVM: aesni - fix token pasting Michael Davidson
2017-04-03 23:14 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-03-17 8:17 ` [PATCH 0/7] LLVM: make x86_64 kernel build with clang Dmitry Vyukov
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