Building the Linux kernel with Clang

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Linaro and Google engineers describe getting mainline Linux to build and boot with Clang and LLVM tools, shipping Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 kernels built with LTO builds and testing CFIs like shadow call stack. KernelCI runs daily and a contributor ran ~50 ranconfig builds that uncovered many issues; over 1,000 Linux commits and 100+ LLVM commits reference clang. Work remaining focuses on inline assembly, assembler support, and fixing AArch64 inline patching so builds reliably boot.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:25Project History
3. 3:30Status
4. 6:34How Linux Improves LLVM
5. 10:06Additions to LLVM
6. 13:47Additions to Linux
7. 14:27Fun bugs
8. 15:52Improvements to both sides
9. 20:05What's next?
10. 23:00Report bugs

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