Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Use ld.lld for linking host programs when LLVM is set

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:55:25 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Currently, host programs are linked with HOSTCC using the toolchain's
> default linker. This can result in confusing behavior when using the
> LLVM Kbuild variable (which states that the user would like to build
> with the LLVM toolchain instead of the GNU one), as clang's default
> linker is ld for most platforms, not ld.lld. The documentation mentions
> HOSTLD=ld.lld is set but this variable is not used by Kbuild proper,
> only within some tools/ projects. Kbuild provides the HOSTLDFLAGS
> variable, which allow users to provide the '-fuse-ld' or '--ld-path'
> flags to customize what linker is used, but this is not super obvious to
> folks not familiar with Kbuild.
> 
> [...]

Applied to

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next-unstable

Thanks!

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Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted. Patches applied to an "unstable" branch are accepted pending
wider testing in -next and any post-commit review; they will generally
be moved to the main branch in a week if no issues are found.

Best regards,
-- 
Cheers,
Nathan