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commit aba091547ef6159d52471f42a3ef531b7b660ed8 upstream.
There is an issue in clang's ThinLTO caching (enabled for the kernel via
'--thinlto-cache-dir') with .incbin, which the kernel occasionally uses
to include data within the kernel, such as the .config file for
/proc/config.gz. For example, when changing the .config and rebuilding
vmlinux, the copy of .config in vmlinux does not match the copy of
.config in the build folder:
$ echo 'CONFIG_LTO_NONE=n
CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y' >kernel/configs/repro.config
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 LLVM=1 clean defconfig repro.config vmlinux
...
$ grep CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL .config
CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y
$ scripts/extract-ikconfig vmlinux | grep CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL
CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y
$ scripts/config -d HEADERS_INSTALL
$ make -kj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 LLVM=1 vmlinux
...
UPD kernel/config_data
GZIP kernel/config_data.gz
CC kernel/configs.o
...
LD vmlinux
...
$ grep CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL .config
# CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL is not set
$ scripts/extract-ikconfig vmlinux | grep CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL
CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y
Without '--thinlto-cache-dir' or when using full LTO, this issue does
not occur.
Benchmarking incremental builds on a few different machines with and
without the cache shows a 20% increase in incremental build time without
the cache when measured by touching init/main.c and running 'make all'.
ARCH=arm64 defconfig + CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y on an arm64 host:
Benchmark 1: With ThinLTO cache
Time (mean ± σ): 56.347 s ± 0.163 s [User: 83.768 s, System: 24.661 s]
Range (min … max): 56.109 s … 56.594 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: Without ThinLTO cache
Time (mean ± σ): 67.740 s ± 0.479 s [User: 718.458 s, System: 31.797 s]
Range (min … max): 67.059 s … 68.556 s 10 runs
Summary
With ThinLTO cache ran
1.20 ± 0.01 times faster than Without ThinLTO cache
ARCH=x86_64 defconfig + CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y on an x86_64 host:
Benchmark 1: With ThinLTO cache
Time (mean ± σ): 85.772 s ± 0.252 s [User: 91.505 s, System: 8.408 s]
Range (min … max): 85.447 s … 86.244 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: Without ThinLTO cache
Time (mean ± σ): 103.833 s ± 0.288 s [User: 232.058 s, System: 8.569 s]
Range (min … max): 103.286 s … 104.124 s 10 runs
Summary
With ThinLTO cache ran
1.21 ± 0.00 times faster than Without ThinLTO cache
While it is unfortunate to take this performance improvement off the
table, correctness is more important. If/when this is fixed in LLVM, it
can potentially be brought back in a conditional manner. Alternatively,
a developer can just disable LTO if doing incremental compiles quickly
is important, as a full compile cycle can still take over a minute even
with the cache and it is unlikely that LTO will result in functional
differences for a kernel change.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: dc5723b02e52 ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO")
Reported-by: Yifan Hong <elsk@google.com>
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2021
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220327115526.cc4b0ff55fc53c97683c3e4d@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
[nathan: Address conflict in Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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