From 9f2aee8f7d1842be08da860e45265d30dba0d1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rong Xu Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 11:53:46 -0700 Subject: kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO Add distributed ThinLTO build support for the Linux kernel. This new mode offers several advantages: (1) Increased flexibility in handling user-specified build options. (2) Improved user-friendliness for developers. (3) Greater convenience for integrating with objtool and livepatch. Note that "distributed" in this context refers to a term that differentiates in-process ThinLTO builds by invoking backend compilation through the linker, not necessarily building in distributed environments. Distributed ThinLTO is enabled via the `CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST` Kconfig option. For example: > make LLVM=1 defconfig > scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST > make LLVM=1 oldconfig > make LLVM=1 vmlinux -j <..> The build flow proceeds in four stages: 1. Perform FE compilation, mirroring the in-process ThinLTO mode. 2. Thin-link the generated IR files and object files. 3. Find all IR files and perform BE compilation, using the flags stored in the .*.o.cmd files. 4. Link the BE results to generate the final vmlinux.o. NOTE: This patch currently implements the build for the main kernel image (vmlinux) only. Kernel module support is planned for a subsequent patch. Tested on the following arch: x86, arm64, loongarch, and riscv. The earlier implementation details can be found here: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-distributed-thinlto-build-for-kernel/85934 Signed-off-by: Rong Xu Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Tested-by: Piotr Gorski Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529185347.2418373-4-xur@google.com Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor --- scripts/Makefile.thinlto | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.thinlto (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.thinlto') diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.thinlto b/scripts/Makefile.thinlto new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bb83f13f3cd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/Makefile.thinlto @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +PHONY := __default +__default: + +include include/config/auto.conf +include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include +include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.lib + +native-objs := $(patsubst %.o,%.thinlto-native.o,$(call read-file, vmlinux.thinlto-index)) + +__default: $(native-objs) + +# Generate .thinlto-native.o (obj) from .o (bitcode) and .thinlto.bc (summary) files +# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +quiet_cmd_cc_o_bc = CC $(quiet_modtag) $@ + be_flags = $(shell sed -n '/saved_c_flags_/s/.*:= //p' \ + $(dir $(<)).$(notdir $(<)).cmd) + cmd_cc_o_bc = \ + $(CC) $(be_flags) -x ir -fno-lto -Wno-unused-command-line-argument \ + -fthinlto-index=$(word 2, $^) -c -o $@ $< + +targets += $(native-objs) +$(native-objs): %.thinlto-native.o: %.o %.o.thinlto.bc FORCE + $(call if_changed,cc_o_bc) + +# Add FORCE to the prerequisites of a target to force it to be always rebuilt. +# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +PHONY += FORCE +FORCE: + +# Read all saved command lines and dependencies for the $(targets) we +# may be building above, using $(if_changed{,_dep}). As an +# optimization, we don't need to read them if the target does not +# exist, we will rebuild anyway in that case. + +existing-targets := $(wildcard $(sort $(targets))) + +-include $(foreach f, $(existing-targets),$(dir $(f)).$(notdir $(f)).cmd) + +.PHONY: $(PHONY) -- cgit v1.2.3