Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects

[Alexandre Ghiti]

Hi Nathan,

On 8/21/25 23:15, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
> has been bumped to 15.0.0, there is no need to check the LLD version
> before selecting ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG{,_THIN} because it will always
> be true.
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Small note, this will conflict with
> https://lore.kernel.org/20250710-riscv-restrict-lto-to-medany-v1-1-b1dac9871ecf@xxxxxxxxxx/
> but I think it is simple enough to deal with.
> ---
>   arch/riscv/Kconfig | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index a4b233a0659e..1d53bf02d0fa 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -64,9 +64,8 @@ config RISCV
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if MMU
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS if MMU
> -	# LLD >= 14: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50505
> -	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG if LLD_VERSION >= 140000
> -	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN if LLD_VERSION >= 140000
> +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
> +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS if 64BIT && MMU
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if MMU
>   	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK if MMU

Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Alex