Re: Very slow clang kernel config ..

[Tom Stellard]

On 5/1/21 10:19 PM, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 06:48:11PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 6:22 PM Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >     0.92%  libLLVM-12.so       llvm::StringMapImpl::LookupBucketFor
> >
> > ^ wait a minute; notice how in your profile the `Shared Object` is
> > attributed to `libLLVM-12.so` while mine is `clang-13`?  Clang can be
> > built as either having libllvm statically linked or dynamically; see
> > the cmake variables
> > LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL
> > LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL
> > BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL
> > https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html
> >
> > I think those are frowned upon; useful for cutting down on developers
> > iteration speed due to not having to relink llvm when developing
> > clang. But shipping that in production? I just checked and it doesn't
> > look like we do that for AOSP's build of LLVM.
>
> There's also `-DLLVM_ENABLE_LTO=Thin` that enables LTO for building LLVM
> and Clang themselves, considered they can be bootstrapped like this
> using a previous version of Clang. Combining that with a non-shared
> library build mode for both Clang and LLVM, the result is possibly the
> fastest and most optimized build that is achievable.  Unfortunately I
> see distributions neglecting to enable this in packaging this as well.
>
> On a side note, I'm also a Fedora user and agree with Linus about this.
> I'd like to see an opt-in bypass of the shared library policy via
> something like `dnf install clang-optimized` that would install the
> fastest and most optimized Clang build regardless of RPM install size.

I have experimented with creating a static version of clang in the past,
but never really found a solution I liked enough to upstream into Fedora.
e.g. This solution[1] that we're using to bootstrap clang in our internal
clang-as-the-default-cc Fedora buildroots that we use for testing.

If someone could file a bug[2] against the clang package in Fedora (or RHEL even)
with some data or other information that shows the downsides of the shared
build of of clang, that would be really helpful.

-Tom

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/tstellar/rpms/clang/c/dea2413c6822cc7aa7a08ebe73d10abf8216259f?branch=clang-minimal
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/