[PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

[Sami Tolvanen]

This patch series adds support for building x86_64 and arm64 kernels
with Clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO).

In addition to performance, the primary motivation for LTO is to allow
Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be used in the kernel. Google's
Pixel devices have shipped with LTO+CFI kernels since 2018.

Most of the patches are build system changes for handling LLVM bitcode,
which Clang produces with LTO instead of ELF object files, postponing
ELF processing until a later stage, and ensuring initcall ordering.

Note that first objtool patch in the series is already in linux-next,
but as it's needed with LTO, I'm including it also here to make testing
easier.

Sami Tolvanen (22):
  objtool: use sh_info to find the base for .rela sections
  kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
  kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
  kbuild: lto: fix recordmcount
  kbuild: lto: postpone objtool
  kbuild: lto: limit inlining
  kbuild: lto: merge module sections
  kbuild: lto: remove duplicate dependencies from .mod files
  init: lto: ensure initcall ordering
  init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
  pci: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
  modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names
  scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
  efi/libstub: disable LTO
  drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o
  arm64: export CC_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
  arm64: vdso: disable LTO
  arm64: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected
  x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO
  x86, ftrace: disable recordmcount for ftrace_make_nop
  x86, relocs: Ignore L4_PAGE_OFFSET relocations
  x86, build: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected

 .gitignore                            |   1 +
 Makefile                              |  27 ++-
 arch/Kconfig                          |  65 +++++++
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                    |   2 +
 arch/arm64/Makefile                   |   1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile       |   4 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                      |   2 +
 arch/x86/Makefile                     |   5 +
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile          |   5 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c              |   1 +
 arch/x86/tools/relocs.c               |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile |   2 +
 drivers/misc/lkdtm/Makefile           |   1 +
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h     |  12 +-
 include/linux/compiler-clang.h        |   4 +
 include/linux/compiler.h              |   2 +-
 include/linux/compiler_types.h        |   4 +
 include/linux/init.h                  |  78 +++++++-
 include/linux/pci.h                   |  15 +-
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c                 |   1 +
 lib/Kconfig.debug                     |   2 +-
 scripts/Makefile.build                |  55 +++++-
 scripts/Makefile.lib                  |   6 +-
 scripts/Makefile.modfinal             |  40 +++-
 scripts/Makefile.modpost              |  26 ++-
 scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl    | 270 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh               | 100 +++++++++-
 scripts/mod/Makefile                  |   1 +
 scripts/mod/modpost.c                 |  16 +-
 scripts/mod/modpost.h                 |   9 +
 scripts/mod/sumversion.c              |   6 +-
 scripts/module-lto.lds                |  26 +++
 scripts/recordmcount.c                |   3 +-
 tools/objtool/elf.c                   |   2 +-
 34 files changed, 737 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/generate_initcall_order.pl
 create mode 100644 scripts/module-lto.lds


base-commit: 26e122e97a3d0390ebec389347f64f3730fdf48f
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2.27.0.212.ge8ba1cc988-goog