kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

This change adds build system support for Clang's Link Time
Optimization (LTO). With -flto, instead of ELF object files, Clang
produces LLVM bitcode, which is compi

kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

This change adds build system support for Clang's Link Time
Optimization (LTO). With -flto, instead of ELF object files, Clang
produces LLVM bitcode, which is compiled into native code at link
time, allowing the final binary to be optimized globally. For more
details, see:

https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html

The Kconfig option CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is implemented as a choice,
which defaults to LTO being disabled. To use LTO, the architecture
must select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG and support:

- compiling with Clang,
- compiling all assembly code with Clang's integrated assembler,
- and linking with LLD.

While using CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL results in the best runtime
performance, the compilation is not scalable in time or
memory. CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN enables ThinLTO, which allows
parallel optimization and faster incremental builds. ThinLTO is
used by default if the architecture also selects
ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html

To enable LTO, LLVM tools must be used to handle bitcode files, by
passing LLVM=1 and LLVM_IAS=1 options to make:

$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
$ scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

To prepare for LTO support with other compilers, common parts are
gated behind the CONFIG_LTO option, and LTO can be disabled for
specific files by filtering out CC_FLAGS_LTO.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-3-samitolvanen@google.com

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Linux 5.11-rc3

tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig

Move function tracer options to Kconfig to make it easier to add
new methods for generating __mcount_loc, and to make the options
available also when

tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig

Move function tracer options to Kconfig to make it easier to add
new methods for generating __mcount_loc, and to make the options
available also when building kernel modules.

Note that FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_* options are updated on rebuild and
therefore, work even if the .config was generated in a different
environment.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-2-samitolvanen@google.com

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Linux 5.11-rc2

Linux 5.11-rc1

kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path

depmod is not guaranteed to be in /sbin, just let make look for
it in the path like all the other invoked programs

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@cod

kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path

depmod is not guaranteed to be in /sbin, just let make look for
it in the path like all the other invoked programs

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.10

Linux 5.10-rc7

kbuild: Hoist '--orphan-handling' into Kconfig

Currently, '--orphan-handling=warn' is spread out across four different
architectures in their respective Makefiles, which makes it a little
unruly to

kbuild: Hoist '--orphan-handling' into Kconfig

Currently, '--orphan-handling=warn' is spread out across four different
architectures in their respective Makefiles, which makes it a little
unruly to deal with in case it needs to be disabled for a specific
linker version (in this case, ld.lld 10.0.1).

To make it easier to control this, hoist this warning into Kconfig and
the main Makefile so that disabling it is simpler, as the warning will
only be enabled in a couple places (main Makefile and a couple of
compressed boot folders that blow away LDFLAGS_vmlinx) and making it
conditional is easier due to Kconfig syntax. One small additional
benefit of this is saving a call to ld-option on incremental builds
because we will have already evaluated it for CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN.

To keep the list of supported architectures the same, introduce
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN, which an architecture can select to
gain this automatically after all of the sections are specified and size
asserted. A special thanks to Kees Cook for the help text on this
config.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1187
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.10-rc6

Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1

Clang's integrated assembler produces the warning for assembly files:

warning: DWARF2 only supports one section per compilation unit

If

Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1

Clang's integrated assembler produces the warning for assembly files:

warning: DWARF2 only supports one section per compilation unit

If -Wa,-gdwarf-* is unspecified, then debug info is not emitted for
assembly sources (it is still emitted for C sources). This will be
re-enabled for newer DWARF versions in a follow up patch.

Enables defconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO to build cleanly with
LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 for x86_64 and arm64.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/716
Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map for .S sources

Follow-up to commit a73619a845d5 ("kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map to
make __FILE__ a relative path"). Assembler sources also use __FILE__
macro so this

kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map for .S sources

Follow-up to commit a73619a845d5 ("kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map to
make __FILE__ a relative path"). Assembler sources also use __FILE__
macro so this flag should be also applied to those sources.

Signed-off-by: Denys Zagorui <dzagorui@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.10-rc5

Linux 5.10-rc4

Linux 5.10-rc3

kbuild: remove unused OBJSIZE

The "size" tool has been solely used by s390 to enforce .bss section usage
restrictions in early startup code. Since commit 980d5f9ab36b ("s390/boot:
enable .bss sectio

kbuild: remove unused OBJSIZE

The "size" tool has been solely used by s390 to enforce .bss section usage
restrictions in early startup code. Since commit 980d5f9ab36b ("s390/boot:
enable .bss section for compressed kernel") and commit 2e83e0eb85ca
("s390: clean .bss before running uncompressed kernel") these restrictions
have been lifted for the decompressor and uncompressed kernel and the
size tool is now unused.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.10-rc2

Linux 5.10-rc1

kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions

Some old GCC versions between 4.5.0 and 4.9.1 might miscompile code
with -fvar-tracking-assingments (which is enabled by default w

kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions

Some old GCC versions between 4.5.0 and 4.9.1 might miscompile code
with -fvar-tracking-assingments (which is enabled by default with -g -O2).
Commit 2062afb4f804 ("Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance()
in scheduler") added -fno-var-tracking-assignments unconditionally to
work around this. But newer versions of GCC no longer have this bug, so
only add it for versions of GCC before 5.0. This allows various tools
such as a perf probe or gdb debuggers or systemtap to resolve variable
locations using dwarf locations in more code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Revert "kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants"

This reverts commit 87e0d4f0f37fb0c8c4aeeac46fff5e957738df79.

-fno-merge-all-constants has been the default since clang-6; the

Revert "kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants"

This reverts commit 87e0d4f0f37fb0c8c4aeeac46fff5e957738df79.

-fno-merge-all-constants has been the default since clang-6; the minimum
supported version of clang in the kernel is clang-10 (10.0.1).

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-3-ndesaulniers@google.com
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/rL329300.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/9
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type

Catch errors which at least gcc tolerates by default:
warning: 'return' with no value, in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type]

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering

kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type

Catch errors which at least gcc tolerates by default:
warning: 'return' with no value, in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type]

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.9

scripts: remove namespace.pl

namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.

scripts: remove namespace.pl

namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.

The script relies on object data, and only finds unused symbols for the
configuration used to generate that object data. This results in a lot
of false positive warnings such as symbols only used by a single
architecture, or symbols which are used externally only under certain
configurations.

Running namespace.pl using allyesconfig, allmodconfig, and
x86_64_defconfig yields the following results:

* allmodconfig
* 11122 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* allyesconfig
* 10997 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* x86_64_defconfig
* 5757 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 528 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 154 symbols it can't resolve

The script also has no way to easily limit the scope of the checks to
a given subset of the kernel, such as only checking for symbols defined
within a module or subsystem.

Discussion on public mailing lists seems to indicate that many view the
tool output as suspect or not very useful (see discussions at [1] and
[2] for further context).

As described by Masahiro Yamada at [2], namespace.pl provides 3 types of
checks: listing multiply defined symbols, resolving external symbols,
and warnings about symbols with no reference.

The first category of issues is easily caught by the linker as any set
of multiply defined symbols should fail to link. The second category of
issues is also caught by linking, as undefined symbols would cause
issues. Even with modules, these types of issues where a module relies
on an external symbol are caught by modpost.

The remaining category of issues reported is the list of symbols with no
external reference, and is the primary motivation of this script.
However, it ought to be clear from the above examples that the output is
difficult to sort through. Even allyesconfig has ~10000 entries.

The current submit-checklist indicates that patches ought to go through
namespacecheck and fix any new issues arising. But that itself presents
problems. As described at [1], many cases of reports are due to
configuration where a function is used externally by some configuration
settings. Prominent maintainers appear to dislike changes modify code
such that symbols become static based on CONFIG_* flags ([3], and [4])

One possible solution is to adjust the advice and indicate that we only
care about the output of namespacecheck on allyesconfig or allmodconfig
builds...

However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are
actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the
MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols
that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply
remove it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style

ld's --build-id defaults to "sha1" style, while lld defaults to "fast".
The build IDs are very different between the two, which may confuse
programs tha

kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style

ld's --build-id defaults to "sha1" style, while lld defaults to "fast".
The build IDs are very different between the two, which may confuse
programs that reference them.

Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Linux 5.9-rc8