feat: add LLVM+Clang+LLD toolchain

[dsseng]

LLVM toolchain provides numerous opportunities for building Linux
kernels, such as kCFI, ThinLTO, Rust support and easy cross-compilation

Build a toolchain sufficient for Linux, without compiler-rt and
libstdc++, but with llvm-binutils and lld

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Sharshakov [email protected]

[dsseng]

TODO:

• implement best practices, such as LTOing the compiler
• LLVM version 21.1.8 is out
• configure Renovate for LLVM

[dsseng]

TODO: drop before merging

[dsseng]

Needs a new reproducibility test target merging tools and tools-llvm to test them together, but ship separately

[dsseng]

These targets should be removed altogether since I now changed projects (clang, lld) to build together with llvm

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR introduces an LLVM 21-based toolchain (LLVM + Clang + LLD) and a dedicated tools-llvm image suitable for building Linux kernels, and wires it into the build, reproducibility, and CI pipelines.

Changes:

• Add new llvm, clang, and lld build stages (with aarch64 and stack-size patches) and version/checksum vars for LLVM 21.1.8 in Pkgfile.
• Add a new tools-llvm image that pulls in the LLVM toolchain, prunes development artifacts, and use it as the reproducibility-test target.
• Update Makefile, .kres.yaml, and CI workflow to build/push the new image and run reproducibility tests against it, including optional pushes to ttl.sh for PRs.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
tools-llvm/pkg.yaml	Defines the new tools-llvm image, aggregating the llvm stage into /rootfs and stripping LLVM development headers/static archives before finalizing.
llvm/pkg.yaml	Adds the core llvm stage that builds LLVM 21.1.8 with Clang and LLD enabled from source, applies local patches, and installs into /usr under /rootfs.
llvm/patches/llvm-stack-size.patch	Introduces an upstream-derived patch to always request a larger thread stack size (originally Mac-specific) for LLVM’s threading support.
llvm/patches/fix-memory-mf_exec-on-aarch64.patch	Adds an upstream-derived patch to adjust memory protection flags for executable pages on Linux/aarch64.
lld/pkg.yaml	Defines a standalone lld build stage that depends on llvm, fetches LLD and related components, applies the same LLVM patches, builds, and installs LLD under /usr.
lld/patches/llvm-stack-size.patch	Duplicates the LLVM stack-size patch for use within the lld package context.
lld/patches/fix-memory-mf_exec-on-aarch64.patch	Duplicates the aarch64 memory protection patch for use within the lld package context.
clang/pkg.yaml	Adds a standalone clang build stage depending on llvm, building and installing Clang with appropriate standalone and linker options.
Pkgfile	Introduces version and checksum variables for LLVM 21.1.8 and its component tarballs (LLVM, Clang, LLD, libunwind, cmake, third-party) for use by the new packages.
Makefile	Regenerates build targets to include tools-llvm and updates reproducibility-test to exercise the tools-llvm target.
.kres.yaml	Adds tools-llvm to the list of Kres-managed targets and sets tools-llvm as the reproducible target name used by the Makefile.
.github/workflows/ci.yaml	Extends the default CI job for PRs with an optional make PUSH=true REGISTRY=ttl.sh step to push images to ttl.sh without failing the build if that push fails.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

lld/patches/llvm-stack-size.patch:26

• These LLVM patch files in the lld package duplicate the ones under llvm/patches (same content and upstream references). To reduce duplication and the risk of the two copies drifting apart, consider centralizing shared LLVM patches (for example, keeping them only under llvm/patches and reusing them from here).

Imported from Alpine: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/9e8202998fa718a7be6fb2d8aba639f97a94bb6a/main/llvm21/llvm-stack-size.patch

Patch-Source: https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/blob/8c0359f31b9d888e59ced0320e93ca8ad79ba1f9/main/llvm/patches/0010-always-set-a-larger-stack-size-explicitly.patch
From 18e09846d9333b554e3dfbbd768ada6643bf92c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kolesa <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 01:03:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 10/22] always set a larger stack size explicitly

---
 llvm/lib/Support/Threading.cpp | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Support/Threading.cpp b/llvm/lib/Support/Threading.cpp
index 923935bbc..26594aac8 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Support/Threading.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Support/Threading.cpp
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ unsigned llvm::ThreadPoolStrategy::compute_thread_count() const {
 // keyword.
 #include "llvm/Support/thread.h"
 
-#if defined(__APPLE__)
+#if 1
   // Darwin's default stack size for threads except the main one is only 512KB,
   // which is not enough for some/many normal LLVM compilations. This implements
   // the same interface as std::thread but requests the same stack size as the

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[Copilot]

This package invokes patch here but does not declare a patch stage dependency in the dependencies list, unlike other packages that apply /pkg/patches (for example, fakeroot/pkg.yaml:3-9 and tools-cpio/pkg.yaml:3-7). To avoid relying on the toolchain image implicitly providing patch and to stay consistent with the rest of the repo, please add - stage: patch to the dependencies.

[Copilot]

This package also uses the patch command but, like llvm/pkg.yaml, does not declare a patch stage dependency. For consistency with other patched packages and to ensure patch is available in the build environment, please add - stage: patch to the dependencies.