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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] LLVMLinux: Patches to enable the kernel to be compiled with clang/LLVM
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:57:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140709095718.GD9485@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404850576-2006-1-git-send-email-behanw@converseincode.com>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:16:10PM +0100, behanw at converseincode.com wrote:
> From: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode•com>
> 
> The LLVMLinux project aims to fully build the Linux kernel using both gcc and
> clang (the C front end for the LLVM compiler infrastructure project). 
> 
> Clang only supports global named registers for non-allocatable registers like
> the stack pointer. By centralizing the definition of current_stack_pointer, the
> use of named registers for ARM remains largely unchanged while working for both
> gcc and clang.

All looks sane to me. For the series:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>

BTW, have you tried building an arm64 kernel with clang?

Will

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-09  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-08 20:16 [PATCH 0/6] LLVMLinux: Patches to enable the kernel to be compiled with clang/LLVM behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Add global named register current_stack_pointer for ARM behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer to calculate pt_regs address behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer for return_address behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer in save_stack_trace_tsk behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Calculate current_thread_info from current_stack_pointer behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-08 20:16 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer in unwind_backtrace behanw at converseincode.com
2014-07-09  9:57 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-07-09 11:24   ` [PATCH 0/6] LLVMLinux: Patches to enable the kernel to be compiled with clang/LLVM Jan-Simon Möller
2014-07-13  9:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-17  4:17   ` Behan Webster

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