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* Documentation/llvm: Improve formatting of commands, variables, and argumentsNathan Chancellor2020-08-311-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While reviewing a separate patch, I noticed that the formatting of the commands, variables, and arguments was not in a monospaced font like the rest of the Kbuild documentation (see kbuild/kconfig.rst for an example). This is due to a lack of "::" before indented command blocks and single backticks instead of double backticks for inline formatting. Add those so that the document looks nicer in an HTML format, while not ruining the look in plain text. As a result of this, we can remove the escaped backslashes in the last code block and move them to single backslashes. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
* kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS onesAlexander A. Klimov2020-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
* kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVMMasahiro Yamada2020-04-091-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> # build Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
* kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1Masahiro Yamada2020-04-091-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 'AS' variable is unused for building the kernel. Only the remaining usage is to turn on the integrated assembler. A boolean flag is a better fit for this purpose. AS=clang was added for experts. So, I replaced it with LLVM_IAS=1, breaking the backward compatibility. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
* Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-sizeFangrui Song2020-04-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize. Fixes: fcf1b6a35c16 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM") Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
* Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVMNick Desaulniers2020-03-031-0/+80
Added to kbuild documentation. Provides more official info on building kernels with Clang and LLVM than our wiki. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>