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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-11 19:46:12 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-11 19:46:12 +0300
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23 - remove old CONFIG_AS_* macros that we know binutils >= 2.23 supports - move remaining CONFIG_AS_* tests to Kconfig from Makefile - enable -Wtautological-compare warnings to catch more issues - do not support GCC plugins for GCC <= 4.7 - fix various breakages of 'make xconfig' - include the linker version used for linking the kernel into LINUX_COMPILER, which is used for the banner, and also exposed to /proc/version - link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y, which allows us to remove the lib-ksyms.o workaround, and to solve the last known issue of the LLVM linker - add dummy tools in scripts/dummy-tools/ to enable all compiler tests in Kconfig, which will be useful for distro maintainers - support the single switch, LLVM=1 to use Clang and all LLVM utilities instead of GCC and Binutils. - support LLVM_IAS=1 to enable the integrated assembler, which is still experimental * tag 'kbuild-v5.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (36 commits) kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1 kbuild: add dummy toolchains to enable all cc-option etc. in Kconfig kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y MIPS: fw: arc: add __weak to prom_meminit and prom_free_prom_memory kbuild: remove -I$(srctree)/tools/include from scripts/Makefile kbuild: do not pass $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) to scripts/mkcompile_h Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version kconfig: qconf: Fix a few alignment issues kconfig: qconf: remove some old bogus TODOs kconfig: qconf: fix support for the split view mode kconfig: qconf: fix the content of the main widget kconfig: qconf: Change title for the item window kconfig: qconf: clean deprecated warnings gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7 kbuild: Enable -Wtautological-compare x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2 crypto: x86 - clean up poly1305-x86_64-cryptogams.S by 'make clean' ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/changes.rst4
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 510f38d7e78a..2d1fc03d346e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
@@ -262,3 +262,8 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
whoami and host, respectively.
+
+LLVM
+----
+If this variable is set to 1, Kbuild will use Clang and LLVM utilities instead
+of GCC and GNU binutils to build the kernel.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
index d6c79eb4e23e..c776b6eee969 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
@@ -47,14 +47,21 @@ example:
LLVM Utilities
--------------
-LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. These can be invoked as
-additional parameters to `make`.
+LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports `LLVM=1`
+to enable them.
- make CC=clang AS=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\
- OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-objsize \\
+ make LLVM=1
+
+They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters:
+
+ make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\
+ OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \\
READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \\
HOSTLD=ld.lld
+Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass
+`LLVM_IAS=1` to enable it.
+
Getting Help
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e47863575917..91c5ff8e161e 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 4.6 gcc --version
GNU make 3.81 make --version
-binutils 2.21 ld -v
+binutils 2.23 ld -v
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
Binutils
--------
-Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
pkg-config
----------