From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5316FC433E1 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7C32072D for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:10:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598256646; bh=ULx92fiehP+uNWO/U4kQmFzl/qMSZkrBJzTAAeQAPLI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=AdDDF8O5Cbwy8pxeRMX5GVq+0WiqGhHm8JL8a3M2rwtBRjU2eEJp5qlBLK13gv56j P9yMF6KIeTHF/As7+mEUIrpc6GSc3C8J7DrHYW3v0gdHbFsv8v+LjNzdxruG0SmU6w hmwjXeS1TZBf+MISxbaPWsVFrKzklo83T8vCkw84= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725836AbgHXIKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:10:43 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:48204 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726370AbgHXIKl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:10:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E84A72074D; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:10:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598256640; bh=ULx92fiehP+uNWO/U4kQmFzl/qMSZkrBJzTAAeQAPLI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=O6j3U1gUGsTPlPJNiZTeQDc1HFwy2wOWuU2sFilWldC659awT6/HfYjRsFmcIMs3F 2aflY6OpY87TwETLBxroTBsCGuSU90l3xUiJI0U5YuoO/jwqw4yQUayAMCKMRS9Nw+ ZfhBkfAt3hgEZUKCrT/uK4shDKV5t33px5Z7Ax/E= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:10:58 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Sasha Levin , Masahiro Yamada , "# 3.4.x" , clang-built-linux , Nathan Chancellor , Dmitry Golovin , Geert Uytterhoeven , Fangrui Song , Sedat Dilek , Kees Cook Subject: Re: LLVM=1 patches for 5.4 Message-ID: <20200824081058.GB92813@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:14:36PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Dear stable kernel maintainers, > Please consider the attached mbox file, which contains 9 patches which > cherry pick cleanly onto 5.4: > > 1. commit fcf1b6a35c16 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on > building w/ Clang/LLVM") > 2. commit 0f44fbc162b7 ("Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size") > 3. commit 63b903dfebde ("net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass > CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware") > 4. commit 734f3719d343 ("net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of > $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware") > 5. commit eefb8c124fd9 ("x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to > be specified") > 6. commit 94f7345b7124 ("kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable") > 7. commit aa824e0c962b ("kbuild: remove AS variable") > 8. commit 7e20e47c70f8 ("kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1") > 9. commit a0d1c951ef08 ("kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default > tools to Clang/LLVM") > > This series improves/simplifies building kernels with Clang and LLVM > utilities; it will help the various CI systems testing kernels built > with Clang+LLVM utilities (in fact I will be pointing to this, if > accepted, next week at plumbers with those CI system maintainers), and > we will make immediate use of it in Android (see also: > https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/+/1405387). > We can always carry it out of tree in Android, but I think the series > is fairly tame, and would prefer not to. > > I only particularly care about 5+8+9 (eefb8c124fd9, 7e20e47c70f8, and > a0d1c951ef08), but the rest are required for them to cherry-pick > cleanly. I don't mind separating those three out, though they won't > be clean cherry-picks at that point. It might be good to have > Masahiro review the series. If accepted, I plan to wire up test > coverage of these immediately in > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/issues/300. > > Most of the above landed in v5.7-rc1, with 94f7345b7124 landing in > v5.6-rc1 and eefb8c124fd9 landing in v5.5-rc3. All now queued up, thanks. greg k-h