Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version
From: Sedat Dilek <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-26 15:54:00
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:26 AM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux [off-list ref] wrote:
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Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now. We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over time. Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's. GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates to the past 3 major versions. LLVM tends to support one major release and one minor release every six months. Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> --- Note to reviewers: working remote, I'm having trouble testing/verifying that I have the RST links wired up correctly; I would appreciate it if someone is able to `make htmldocs` and check Documentation/output/process/changes.html properly links to Documentation/output/kbuild/llvm.html. Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 2 ++ Documentation/process/changes.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst index 2aac50b97921..70ec6e9a183b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _kbuild_llvm: + ============================== Building Linux with Clang/LLVM ==============================diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index ee741763a3fc..6c580ef9f2a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils. Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== GNU C 4.9 gcc --version +Clang/LLVM (optional) 10.0.1 clang --version GNU make 3.81 make --version binutils 2.23 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version@@ -68,6 +69,15 @@ GCC The gcc version requirements may vary depending on the type of CPU in your computer. +Clang/LLVM (optional) +--------------------- + +The latest formal release of clang and LLVM utils (according to +`releases.llvm.org <https://releases.llvm.org>`_) are supported for building +kernels. Older releases aren't gauranteed to work, and we may drop workarounds +from the kernel that were used to support older versions. Please see additional +docs on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`. + Make
Thanks for the text - a first good step. Do you plan checks in the source-code - in the future (see [1] where I played a bit)? Arch-specific supported LLVM toolchain versions? Feature-specific support (like KCSAN, Clang-IAS, etc.)? In the future we should introduce some checks for this to be user-friendly. If you talk about "Clang/LLVM" does this include the LLD linker? Personally, I think LLD is worth a separate item like GNU/ld (BFD) linker. The last few days I was able to build with GCC v10.2 and LLD and even full LLVM "bin"utils (see [2]) version 11.0.0-rc2 on Debian/unstable AMD64. Just some thoughts - for the future. - Sedat - [1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/941 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst#n47
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