May 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Warning fixes: These are patches to fix various warnings that appear with LLVM. I used to go into detail about the different warnings and what they mean, but the important takeaway for this section is that the kernel should build warning free, as all developers should be using CONFIG_WERROR, which will turn these all into failures....

May 31, 2023 · 4 min · Nathan Chancellor

April 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :)...

April 28, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

March 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :)...

March 31, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

February 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Downstream fixes: These are fixes and improvements that occur in a downstream Linux tree, such as Android or ChromeOS, which our continuous integration regularly tests. ANDROID: GKI: Fix copying of protected_exports Miscellaneous fixes and improvements: These are fixes and improvements that don’t fit into a particular category but are important to ClangBuiltLinux....

February 28, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

January 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Downstream fixes: These are fixes and improvements that occur in a downstream Linux tree, such as Android or ChromeOS, which our continuous integration regularly tests. ANDROID: fuse: Restore upstream type of bitfields in fuse_args Miscellaneous fixes: These are fixes and improvements that don’t fit into a particular category but are important to ClangBuiltLinux....

January 31, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

2022 ClangBuiltLinux Retrospective

I have been contracting for the Linux Foundation for two years now, going onto the third, and it dawned on me that I have never done a retrospective or yearly report. This is useful for looking back on the year’s worth of accomplishments, both to understand how much I have evolved and to look for areas that I would like to improve upon going forward. I have struggled with imposter syndrome for as long as I have been involved with the kernel community, so looking back to give credit where credit is due for particular solutions is a good way to try and combat that....

December 30, 2022 · 41 min · Nathan Chancellor

December 2022 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Miscellaneous fixes: These are fixes and improvements that don’t fit into a particular category but are important to ClangBuiltLinux. Fix lack of section mismatch warnings with LTO (v2, v3) security: Restrict CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS to gcc or clang > 15....

December 30, 2022 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

November 2022 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :)...

November 30, 2022 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

October 2022 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :)...

October 31, 2022 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

September 2022 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :)...

September 29, 2022 · 7 min · Nathan Chancellor