Re: Patches for building kernel 5.4 with LLVM's integrated assembler

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 02:51:32PM -0800, Jian Cai wrote:

Dear Stable kernel maintainers,

Please consider cherry picking the following commits (ordered by commit time) ino linux-5.4.y.

ffedeeb780dc linkage: Introduce new macros for assembler symbols

35e61c77ef38 arm64: asm: Add new-style position independent function annotations

3ac0f4526dfb arm64: lib: Use modern annotations for assembly functions

ec9d78070de9 arm64: Change .weak to SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI for arch/arm64/lib/mem*.S

The first three are required to apply the last patch. This would unblock Chrome OS to build with LLVM's integrated assembler (Please see http://crbug.com/1143847 for details).

I've done this, but does this also provide this functionality for x86?

thanks,

greg k-h