Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23

 - remove old CONFIG_AS_* macros that we know binutils >= 2.23 supports

 - move remaining CONFIG_AS_* tests to Kconfig from Makefile

 - enable -Wtautological-compare warnings to catch more issues

 - do not support GCC plugins for GCC <= 4.7

 - fix various breakages of 'make xconfig'

 - include the linker version used for linking the kernel into
   LINUX_COMPILER, which is used for the banner, and also exposed to
   /proc/version

 - link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y, which
   allows us to remove the lib-ksyms.o workaround, and to solve the last
   known issue of the LLVM linker

 - add dummy tools in scripts/dummy-tools/ to enable all compiler tests
   in Kconfig, which will be useful for distro maintainers

 - support the single switch, LLVM=1 to use Clang and all LLVM utilities
   instead of GCC and Binutils.

 - support LLVM_IAS=1 to enable the integrated assembler, which is still
   experimental

* tag 'kbuild-v5.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (36 commits)
  kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection
  kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM
  kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1
  kbuild: add dummy toolchains to enable all cc-option etc. in Kconfig
  kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y
  MIPS: fw: arc: add __weak to prom_meminit and prom_free_prom_memory
  kbuild: remove -I$(srctree)/tools/include from scripts/Makefile
  kbuild: do not pass $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) to scripts/mkcompile_h
  Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size
  kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version
  kconfig: qconf: Fix a few alignment issues
  kconfig: qconf: remove some old bogus TODOs
  kconfig: qconf: fix support for the split view mode
  kconfig: qconf: fix the content of the main widget
  kconfig: qconf: Change title for the item window
  kconfig: qconf: clean deprecated warnings
  gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7
  kbuild: Enable -Wtautological-compare
  x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2
  crypto: x86 - clean up poly1305-x86_64-cryptogams.S by 'make clean'
  ...

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 510f38d7e78a..2d1fc03d346e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
@@ -262,3 +262,8 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
 These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
 boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
 whoami and host, respectively.
+
+LLVM
+----
+If this variable is set to 1, Kbuild will use Clang and LLVM utilities instead
+of GCC and GNU binutils to build the kernel.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
index d6c79eb4e23e..c776b6eee969 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
@@ -47,14 +47,21 @@ example:
 LLVM Utilities
 --------------
 
-LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. These can be invoked as
-additional parameters to `make`.
+LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports `LLVM=1`
+to enable them.
 
-	make CC=clang AS=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\
-	  OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-objsize \\
+	make LLVM=1
+
+They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters:
+
+	make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \\
+	  OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \\
 	  READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \\
 	  HOSTLD=ld.lld
 
+Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass
+`LLVM_IAS=1` to enable it.
+
 Getting Help
 ------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e47863575917..91c5ff8e161e 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
 GNU C                  4.6              gcc --version
 GNU make               3.81             make --version
-binutils               2.21             ld -v
+binutils               2.23             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
 bison                  2.0              bison --version
 util-linux             2.10o            fdformat --version
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
 Binutils
 --------
 
-Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
 
 pkg-config
 ----------