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graysky

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Has anyone experimented with a kernel built with clang

Just wondering what experiences have been building a kernel with clang now that lto has been merged for 5.12.y.  Here is a modified PKGBUILD that builds the 5.12.9 kernel with clang and thin lto.
  I haven't been able to find any controlled comparison/benchmarks assessing the performance of a gcc compiled kernel vs clang compiled kernel.  Perhaps someone else has a link to share?

EDIT: if you use dkms, you might need to tweak the headers as it may have issues.  See: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … trous#n160 (note that I haven't verified this myself/I do not use dkms).

source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … LTO-Merged

Last edited by graysky (2021-06-06 17:11:32)

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loqs

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Re: Has anyone experimented with a kernel built with clang

Are you going to create a gcc based build with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK disabled to compare against the clang build?

graysky

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Re: Has anyone experimented with a kernel built with clang

I didn't plan to do any benchmarking myself, just asking here for experience and links.  Googling myself failed to give anything relevant.

Last edited by graysky (2021-06-07 10:35:16)

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CarbonChauvinist

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Re: Has anyone experimented with a kernel built with clang

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=258717

Remember seeing this thread previously, looks like some chatter there you might be interested in?

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