kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
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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- Makefile 17 additions, 2 deletionsMakefile
- arch/Kconfig 91 additions, 0 deletionsarch/Kconfig
- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h 7 additions, 4 deletionsinclude/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
- scripts/Makefile.build 8 additions, 1 deletionscripts/Makefile.build
- scripts/Makefile.modfinal 8 additions, 1 deletionscripts/Makefile.modfinal
- scripts/Makefile.modpost 19 additions, 2 deletionsscripts/Makefile.modpost
- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh 24 additions, 8 deletionsscripts/link-vmlinux.sh
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