[PATCH v5 29/29] x86, build: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected

From: Sami Tolvanen
Date: Fri Oct 09 2020 - 12:15:39 EST


Pass code model and stack alignment to the linker as these are
not stored in LLVM bitcode, and allow both CONFIG_LTO_CLANG and
CONFIG_THINLTO to be selected.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 ++
arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 6d67646153bc..c579d7000b67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ config X86
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG if X86_64
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_THINLTO if X86_64
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 154259f18b8b..774a7debb27c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ ifeq ($(ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS), 1)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-maccumulate-outgoing-args,)
endif

+ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -plugin-opt=-code-model=kernel \
+ -plugin-opt=-stack-alignment=$(if $(CONFIG_X86_32),4,8)
+endif
+
# Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
#
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2.28.0.1011.ga647a8990f-goog