From a0d1c951ef08ed24f35129267e3595d86f57f5d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:36:23 +0900 Subject: kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst implies, building the kernel with a full set of LLVM tools gets very verbose and unwieldy. Provide a single switch LLVM=1 to use Clang and LLVM tools instead of GCC and Binutils. You can pass it from the command line or as an environment variable. Please note LLVM=1 does not turn on the integrated assembler. You need to pass LLVM_IAS=1 to use it. When the upstream kernel is ready for the integrated assembler, I think we can make it default. We discussed what we need, and we agreed to go with a simple boolean flag that switches both target and host tools: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/28/494 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/43 Some items discussed, but not adopted: - LLVM_DIR When multiple versions of LLVM are installed, I just thought supporting LLVM_DIR=/path/to/my/llvm/bin/ might be useful. CC = $(LLVM_DIR)clang LD = $(LLVM_DIR)ld.lld ... However, we can handle this by modifying PATH. So, we decided to not do this. - LLVM_SUFFIX Some distributions (e.g. Debian) package specific versions of LLVM with naming conventions that use the version as a suffix. CC = clang$(LLVM_SUFFIX) LD = ld.lld(LLVM_SUFFIX) ... will allow a user to pass LLVM_SUFFIX=-11 to use clang-11 etc., but the suffixed versions in /usr/bin/ are symlinks to binaries in /usr/lib/llvm-#/bin/, so this can also be handled by PATH. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor # build Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers --- Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 5 +++++ Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild') diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst index 510f38d7e78a..2d1fc03d346e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst @@ -262,3 +262,8 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands whoami and host, respectively. + +LLVM +---- +If this variable is set to 1, Kbuild will use Clang and LLVM utilities instead +of GCC and GNU binutils to build the kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst index 450708534860..c776b6eee969 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst @@ -47,8 +47,12 @@ example: LLVM Utilities -------------- -LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. These can be invoked as -additional parameters to `make`. +LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports `LLVM=1` +to enable them. + + make LLVM=1 + +They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\ OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \\ -- cgit v1.2.3