From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/16] Add support for Clang LTO
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:38:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202012111134.209A6D311@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201211184633.3213045-1-samitolvanen@google.com>
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:46:17AM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> This patch series adds support for building the kernel 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 has shipped millions of Pixel
> devices running three major kernel versions with LTO+CFI 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 arm64 support depends on Will's memory ordering patches
> [1]. I will post x86_64 patches separately after we have fixed the
> remaining objtool warnings [2][3].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/lto
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120040424.a3wctajzft4ufoiw@treble/
> [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux.git/log/?h=objtool-vmlinux
>
> You can also pull this series from
>
> https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux.git lto-v9
>
> ---
> Changes in v9:
>
> - Added HAS_LTO_CLANG dependencies to LLVM=1 and LLVM_IAS=1 to avoid
> issues with mismatched toolchains.
>
> - Dropped the .mod patch as Masahiro landed a better solution to
> the split line issue in commit 7d32358be8ac ("kbuild: avoid split
> lines in .mod files").
>
> - Updated CC_FLAGS_LTO to use -fvisibility=hidden to avoid weak symbol
> visibility issues with ThinLTO on x86.
>
> - Changed LTO_CLANG_FULL to depend on !COMPILE_TEST to prevent
> timeouts in automated testing.
>
> - Added a dependency to CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN to ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
> in arch/arm64/Kconfig.
>
> - Added a default symbol list to fix an issue with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS.
This continues to look good to me. I'd like to see it in -next ASAP so
we can continue to find any little needed tweaks. Since it works in the
general case, we can add on top of this series once it's in -next.
Masahiro, let me know if you'd rather I not carry this in -next. AFAICT,
the bulk of the changes in the build system continue to be confined to
the LTO-only cases, so it should not be disruptive to anyone doing
non-LTO builds.
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-11 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-11 18:46 [PATCH v9 00/16] Add support for Clang LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 01/16] tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig Sami Tolvanen
2021-02-24 20:17 ` [PATCH v9 01/16] tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig (causing parisc build failures) Guenter Roeck
2021-02-24 20:38 ` Kees Cook
2021-02-24 20:54 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-02-24 22:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-24 22:28 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-24 22:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 02/16] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 03/16] kbuild: lto: fix module versioning Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 04/16] kbuild: lto: limit inlining Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 05/16] kbuild: lto: merge module sections Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 06/16] kbuild: lto: add a default list of used symbols Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2020-12-11 19:40 ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 19:45 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 07/16] init: lto: ensure initcall ordering Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 08/16] init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 09/16] PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 10/16] modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 11/16] scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 12/16] efi/libstub: disable LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 13/16] drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 14/16] arm64: vdso: disable LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 15/16] arm64: disable recordmcount with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 18:46 ` [PATCH v9 16/16] arm64: allow LTO to be selected Sami Tolvanen
2020-12-11 19:38 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-01-09 0:27 ` [PATCH v9 00/16] Add support for Clang LTO Kees Cook
2021-01-09 14:54 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-09 15:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-09 15:46 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-09 16:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-09 16:21 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-09 16:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-09 16:45 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-09 17:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-09 17:05 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-09 17:33 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-09 23:44 ` Sedat Dilek
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