From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] Allow building xen with clang/llvm
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:03:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C99A7A2D.14333%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1299497177@whitby.uk.xensource.com>
These and the first LTO one are all fine by me.
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
On 07/03/2011 11:26, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com> wrote:
> This series of patches allows Xen builds with clang/llvm as well as
> GCC. It only fixes Xen, not tools &c, and only 64-bit, so far.
>
> Building Xen with clang isn't useful in itself (and indeed produces
> a hypervisor that can be up to 10% slower for a default -O2 build);
> rather it's a stepping-stone to doing full link-time optimizations
> on the LLVM bitcode of the whole hypervisor. I will post a second
> series to enable that, but it's not so clean as this one.
>
> I think all the changes in this series are reasonable and won't
> inconvenience any normal users, but obviously they're meant for
> the xen-unstable tree only.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 11:26 [PATCH 0 of 8] Allow building xen with clang/llvm Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 1 of 8] x86: make spinlock's 16-bit asm operand explicitly 16-bit Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 2 of 8] x86: add explicit size suffixes to some assembly instructions Tim Deegan
2011-03-08 9:27 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-08 10:44 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-08 11:01 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-08 16:29 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 3 of 8] x86: redefine a few empty macros as explicit nops Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 4 of 8] xen: adjust cpumask initializers to suit clang's incomplete gccisms Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 5 of 8] credit2: remove two nested functions, replacing them with static ones Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 15:22 ` George Dunlap
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 6 of 8] Xen: remove run_in_exception_handler() and recode its only caller Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 15:05 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 15:15 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 15:38 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 15:44 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 15:49 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 15:56 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 16:00 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-07 16:06 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 7 of 8] x86: redefine REX64_PREFIX for clang, which doesn't like 'rex64/' Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 11:26 ` [PATCH 8 of 8] xen: add "clang=y" option to build Xen with clang/llvm instead of gcc Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 14:54 ` Ian Campbell
2011-03-07 16:29 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-07 17:01 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-08 10:29 ` Tim Deegan
2011-03-08 10:00 ` Ian Campbell
2011-03-07 12:03 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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