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From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kbuild: Fix TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with LTO_CLANG
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:06:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCJKucbKVFvOmo6AsJBQfxL0zO3N9R2ydoCvZKpTwPSbOvbkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAQ8Ucg=ZrEtMUCMkq3wonZqaijtrqbeUBod6DLERrp=zw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 4:27 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 6:46 AM 'Sami Tolvanen' via Clang Built Linux
> <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, we currently link modules into native
> > code just before modpost, which means with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
> > enabled, we still look at the LLVM bitcode in the .o files when
> > generating the list of used symbols. As the bitcode doesn't
> > yet have calls to compiler intrinsics and llvm-nm doesn't see
> > function references that only exist in function-level inline
> > assembly, we currently need a whitelist for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS to
> > work with LTO.
> >
> > This change moves module LTO linking to happen earlier, and
> > thus avoids the issue with LLVM bitcode and TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
> > entirely, allowing us to also drop the whitelist from
> > gen_autoksyms.sh.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1369
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
> > Tested-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
> > ---
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Added missing FORCE.
>
>
>
> All the modules are recompiled every time.

Oops, .lto.o is missing from targets still, which breaks if_changed.
Fixed in v4. Thanks for testing!

Sami

      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-16 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-12 21:46 [PATCH v3] kbuild: Fix TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with LTO_CLANG Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-14 23:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-08-16 18:06   ` Sami Tolvanen [this message]

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