Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

Sami Tolvanen
2020-07-12T23:35:11Z

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
> Thank you very much for sending these changes.
>
> Do you have a branch, where your current work can be pulled from? Your
> branch on GitHub [1] seems 15 months old.

The clang-lto branch is rebased regularly on top of Linus' tree.
GitHub just looks at the commit date of the last commit in the tree,
which isn't all that informative.

> Out of curiosity, I applied the changes, allowed the selection for i386
> (x86), and with Clang 1:11~++20200701093119+ffee8040534-1~exp1 from
> Debian experimental, it failed with `Invalid absolute R_386_32
> relocation: KERNEL_PAGES`:

I haven't looked at getting this to work on i386, which is why we only
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO for x86_64. I would expect there to be a few
issues to address.

> > arch/x86/tools/relocs vmlinux > arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs;arch/x86/tools/relocs --abs-relocs vmlinux
> > Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: KERNEL_PAGES

KERNEL_PAGES looks like a constant, so it's probably safe to ignore
the absolute relocation in tools/relocs.c.

Sami