Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] Documentation/llvm: update CROSS_COMPILE inferencing

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On 8/2/2021 11:39 AM, 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
> As noted by Masahiro, document how we can generally infer CROSS_COMPILE
> (and the more specific details about --target and --prefix) based on
> ARCH.
> 
> Change use of env vars to command line parameters.
> 
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Thanks for the update, I think this is much easier for non-CBL folks to 
understand.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

> ---
> Changes v5 -> v6:
> * Pick up Fangrui's RB tag.
> * Change use of env vars to command line parameters for consistency.
> 
>   Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> index b18401d2ba82..f8a360958f4c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Cross Compiling
>   A single Clang compiler binary will typically contain all supported backends,
>   which can help simplify cross compiling. ::
>   
> -	ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang
> +	make ARCH=arm64 CC=clang CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
>   
>   ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is not used to prefix the Clang compiler binary, instead
>   ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set a command line flag: ``--target=<triple>``. For
> @@ -63,6 +63,23 @@ They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: ::
>   Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass
>   ``LLVM_IAS=1`` to enable it.
>   
> +Omitting CROSS_COMPILE
> +----------------------
> +
> +As explained above, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set ``--target=<triple>``.
> +
> +Unless ``LLVM_IAS=1`` is specified, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is also used to derive
> +``--prefix=<path>`` to search for the GNU assembler and linker.
> +
> +If ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is not specified, the ``--target=<triple>`` is inferred
> +from ``ARCH``.
> +
> +That means if you use only LLVM tools, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` becomes unnecessary.
> +
> +For example, to cross-compile the arm64 kernel::
> +
> +	make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
> +
>   Supported Architectures
>   -----------------------
>   
>