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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-27 13:01:49 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-29 12:39:35 +0300
commitc25e1c55822f9b3b53ccbf88b85644317a525752 (patch)
tree0a71732cc734866099013c08aafef8f7d4437619 /scripts/Makefile.lib
parent0cfd90060d714e3d1e0d1b30cfd1c46b71f4e721 (diff)
downloadlinux-c25e1c55822f9b3b53ccbf88b85644317a525752.tar.xz
kbuild: do not create *.prelink.o for Clang LTO or IBT
When CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y, additional intermediate *.prelink.o is created for each module. Also, objtool is postponed until LLVM IR is converted to ELF. CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT works in a similar way to postpone objtool until objects are merged together. This commit stops generating *.prelink.o, so the build flow will look similar with/without LTO. The following figures show how the LTO build currently works, and how this commit is changing it. Current build flow ================== [1] single-object module $(LD) $(CC) +objtool $(LD) foo.c --------------------> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko (LLVM IR) (ELF) | (ELF) | foo.mod.o --/ (LLVM IR) [2] multi-object module $(LD) $(CC) $(AR) +objtool $(LD) foo1.c -----> foo1.o -----> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko | (archive) (ELF) | (ELF) foo2.c -----> foo2.o --/ | (LLVM IR) foo.mod.o --/ (LLVM IR) One confusion is that foo.o in multi-object module is an archive despite of its suffix. New build flow ============== [1] single-object module Since there is only one object, there is no need to keep the LLVM IR. Use $(CC)+$(LD) to generate an ELF object in one build rule. When LTO is disabled, $(LD) is unneeded because $(CC) produces an ELF object. $(CC)+$(LD)+objtool $(LD) foo.c ----------------------------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko (ELF) | (ELF) | foo.mod.o --/ (LLVM IR) [2] multi-object module Previously, $(AR) was used to combine LLVM IR files into an archive, but there was no technical reason to do so. Use $(LD) to merge them into a single ELF object. $(LD) $(CC) +objtool $(LD) foo1.c ---------> foo1.o ---------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko | (ELF) | (ELF) foo2.c ---------> foo2.o ----/ | (LLVM IR) foo.mod.o --/ (LLVM IR) Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 0453a1904646..f75138385449 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -225,13 +225,6 @@ dtc_cpp_flags = -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile).pre.tmp -nostdinc \
$(addprefix -I,$(DTC_INCLUDE)) \
-undef -D__DTS__
-ifneq ($(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG)$(CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT),)
-# With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, .o files in modules might be LLVM bitcode, so we
-# need to run LTO to compile them into native code (.lto.o) before further
-# processing.
-mod-prelink-ext := .prelink
-endif
-
# Useful for describing the dependency of composite objects
# Usage:
# $(call multi_depend, multi_used_targets, suffix_to_remove, suffix_to_add)