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author Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 1586309783 +0900
committer SamarV-121 <samarvispute121@pm.me> 1667709721 +0530
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BACKPORT: kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM

commit a0d1c951ef08ed24f35129267e3595d86f57f5d3 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
[nd: conflict in exported vars list from not backporting commit
 e83b9f55448a ("kbuild: add ability to generate BTF type info for vmlinux")]
[nd: hunk against Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst dropped due to not backporting
 commit cd238effefa2 ("docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst")]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry-picked from commit 62353048e2d4e398cfc22dbee3e1a7f6f535dcc1)
Signed-off-by: Davide Garberi <dade.garberi@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Ib62c20d4d01b0b95bdcd5e73fa18f32cdb8f585c