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Sami Tolvanen 0e0752ebd2 ANDROID: kbuild: add support for clang LTO
This change adds the configuration option CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, and
build system support for clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO). In
preparation for LTO support for other compilers, potentially common
parts of the changes are gated behind CONFIG_LTO instead.

With -flto, instead of object files, clang produces LLVM bitcode,
which is compiled into a native object at link time, allowing the
final binary to be optimized globally. For more details, see:

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

While the kernel normally uses GNU ld for linking, LLVM supports LTO
only with lld or GNU gold linkers. This patch set assumes lld will
be used.

Bug: 62093296
Bug: 67506682
Bug: 133186739
Change-Id: Ibcd9fc7ec501b4f30b43b4877897615645f8655f
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2019-05-20 17:43:14 -07:00
arch ANDROID: kbuild: add support for clang LTO 2019-05-20 17:43:14 -07:00
block This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto This is the 4.19.37 stable release 2019-04-30 12:53:00 +02:00
Documentation UPSTREAM: gcov: docs: add a note on GCC vs Clang differences 2019-05-17 16:04:56 -07:00
drivers This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
include ANDROID: kbuild: add support for clang LTO 2019-05-20 17:43:14 -07:00
init ANDROID: kbuild: add CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD 2019-05-20 17:42:47 -07:00
ipc ANDROID: vfs: Add permission2 for filesystems with per mount permissions 2018-12-05 09:48:14 -08:00
kernel UPSTREAM: gcov: clang support 2019-05-17 16:05:09 -07:00
lib This is the 4.19.42 stable release 2019-05-10 18:30:16 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
net This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts ANDROID: kbuild: add support for clang LTO 2019-05-20 17:43:14 -07:00
security This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
sound x86/cpu: Sanitize FAM6_ATOM naming 2019-05-14 19:17:53 +02:00
tools This is the 4.19.44 stable release 2019-05-16 19:52:46 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: fix spectrev1 gadgets 2019-05-16 19:41:22 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
build.config.cuttlefish.aarch64 ANDROID: Move from clang r349610 to r353983c. 2019-05-14 17:32:39 -07:00
build.config.cuttlefish.x86_64 ANDROID: Move from clang r349610 to r353983c. 2019-05-14 17:32:39 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
Makefile ANDROID: kbuild: add support for clang LTO 2019-05-20 17:43:14 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.