Re: [PATCH] compiler-clang: add build check for clang 10.0.1

[Marco Elver]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:42PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 01:14:19PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > During Plumbers 2020, we voted to just support the latest release of
> > Clang for now.  Add a compile time check for this.
> > 
> > Older clang's may work, but we will likely drop workarounds for older
> > versions.
> 
> I think this part of the commit message is a little wishy-washy. If we
> are breaking the build for clang < 10.0.1, we are not saying "may work",
> we are saying "won't work". Because of this, we should take the
> opportunity to clean up behind us and revert/remove parts of:
> 
> 87e0d4f0f37f ("kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants")
> b0fe66cf0950 ("ARM: 8905/1: Emit __gnu_mcount_nc when using Clang 10.0.0 or newer")
> b9249cba25a5 ("arm64: bti: Require clang >= 10.0.1 for in-kernel BTI support")
> 3acf4be23528 ("arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang older than 8")
> 
> This could be a series or a part of this commit, I do not have a
> strong preference. If we are not going to clean up behind us, this
> should be a warning and not an error.

There are also some other documentation that would go stale. We probably
have to change KASAN docs to look something like the below.

I wish we could also remove the "but detection of out-of-bounds accesses
for global variables is only supported since Clang 11", but Clang 10 is
a vast improvement so I'm not complaining. :-)

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-- Marco

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From 13d03b55c69dec813d94c1481dcb294971f164ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:56:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kasan: Remove mentions of unsupported Clang versions

Since the kernel now requires at least Clang 10.0.1, remove any mention
of old Clang versions and simplify the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 4 ++--
 lib/Kconfig.kasan                 | 9 ++++-----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 38fd5681fade..4abc84b1798c 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert validity checks before every
 memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that.
 
 Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version
-8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of
+8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible, but detection of
 out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
 
-Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later.
+Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang.
 
 Currently generic KASAN is supported for the x86_64, arm64, xtensa, s390 and
 riscv architectures, and tag-based KASAN is supported only for arm64.
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
index 047b53dbfd58..033a5bc67ac4 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
 	  Enables generic KASAN mode.
 
 	  This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
-	  version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or
-	  later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables
-	  is supported only since Clang 11.
+	  version 8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible,
+	  but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is
+	  supported only since Clang 11.
 
 	  This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
 	  and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS
 	  Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
 
 	  This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
-	  is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0
-	  or later.
+	  is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang.
 
 	  This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
 	  and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
-- 
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d-goog