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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 <xur@google.com> Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Piotr Gorski <piotrgorski@cachyos.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529185347.2418373-4-xur@google.com Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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