Talks, Presentations, and Communications

LKML Posts

• Clang patch stacks for LTS kernels and status update

Talks

• 2011
  • LFCS 2011
    • slides
• 2012
  • 2012 Youtube
    • LLVMLlinux - Linux Kernel built with clang - booting into desktop !
    • llvmlinux - Raspberry Pi support
  • LLVM EU 2012 Conference
    • slides
    • video
  • LinuxCon Japan 2012
    • slides
    • slides
  • Linux Plumbers Conf 2012
    • LLVM Toolchain - Update and State of Building Linux with LLVM
    • Linux Kernel on x86 built with LLVM/Clang, video
• 2013
  • FOSDEM 2013
    • abstract
    • video
  • Embedded Linux Conference 2013
    • Embedded Linux Conference 2013 - LLVMLinux: Compiling the Linux Kernel with LLVM, slides
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2013
    • schedule
    • Linux kernel and user space for Hexagon DSP with LLVM - A. Dasgupta & P. Potoplyak, Qualcomm
    • Variable Length Arrays in Structs (VLAIS) - M. Charlebois, Qualcomm ; Behan Webster
    • Using the Clang Integrated Assembler to compile the Linux Kernel - B. Adelstein-Lelbach, LSU
    • How to make the unified arch/x86/ tree of the Kernel work with clang - Jan-Simon Möller
    • Clang Static Analyzer - Eduard Bachmakov, Linux Foundation (GSoC)
  • LinuxCon 2013
    • LLVMLinux: The Linux Kernel with Dragon Wings - Behan Webster, Converse in Code Inc.
  • Android Builders Summit 2013
    • Android Builders Summit 2013 - LLVMLinux: Compiling Android with LLVM
  • Collaboration Summit 2013
    • Collaboration Summit 2013 - LLVMLinux: The Linux Kernel with Dragon Wings
• 2014
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2014
    • notes
    • What's new in the LLVM Ecosystem, and how does that affect the kernel?
    • LLVMLinux: Patch status
    • LLVMLinux on x86 and what is left to make allyesconfig
  • 2014 LLVM Developers' Meeting
    • swviz: Sofware Visualizer, poster
    • LLVMLinux: The Linux Kernel with Dragon Wings
  • 2014 Linaro Connect
    • LCU14-209: LLVM Linux, slides
  • 2014 FOSDEM
    • The LLVMLinux Project
• 2015
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2015
    • Using Clang Static Analyzer With the Linux Kernel Code
    • LLVMLinux on x86 state of the union
    • etherpad notes
• 2016
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2016
    • AOSP’s switch to Clang
  • Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit Europe
    • Clinging To Clang
  • EMBEDDED LINUX CONFERENCE 2016
    • BUILDING EMBEDDED LINUX SYSTEMS WITH CLANG
• 2017
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2017
    • abstract
    • slides
    • LWN article
  • LLVM US Developer's Meeting 2017 Keynote
    • slides
    • video
• 2018
  • Linaro Connect 2018
    • slides
    • video
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2018
    • slides
    • video
    • Phoronix article
    • Clang BoF Video
    • Clang userspace Video via @berolinaro
• 2019
  • LinuxConf AU 2019
    • abstract
    • video
  • FOSDEM '19
    • abstract
    • slides
    • video (mp4, webm)
    • Phoronix Article
  • Linaro Connect 2019
    • abstract
    • slides
    • video
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2019
    • abstract
    • slides
  • Embedded Recipes 2019
    • LLVM / Clang integration slides, video
• 2020
  • ClangBuiltLinux Meetup (Zurich)
    • Welcome
    • Exploring Speeding Up a Linux Kernel Build with LLVM Tools and Technologies
    • LLVM/Clang and ARM 32-bit
    • Linker Relocation
    • Applying Clang Thread Safety Analysis to the Linux Kernel
    • LLVM: History as I Remember It / ASM Goto w/ Outputs
    • Fighting Uninitialized Memory in the Kernel
    • Debugging LLVM
  • Linux Plumbers Conf 2020 (Virtual)
    • Announcement
    • Schedule
    • Live stream
    • Slides
  • Towards Learning From Linux Configurations' Failures with Clang
  • 2020 LLVM Developers' Meeting
    • Everything I Know About Debugging LLVM
      • slides
    • Clang & Linux: Asm Goto with Outputs
  • A chat with Nick Desaulniers on compiling the Linux Kernel for m68k with LLVM
• 2021
  • LinuxConfAU'21
    • ClangBuiltLinux - What's Next?, slides, video
• 2022
  • Live Embedded Event
    • LLVM tools for the Linux kernel - Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
  • Euro LLVM '22
    • Experiences of OS distributions using LLVM as their main toolchain - Bero Rozenkranzer
  • Intern Presentation: Enabling -Wformat and Clang profiling - Justin Stitt, video, slides
  • ClangBuiltLinux Meetup 2022
    • talks
  • Linux Plumbers Conf 2022
    • How I started chasing speculative type confusion bugs in the kernel and ended up with 'real' ones - abstract slides
    • Toolchains track
• 2023
  • EuroLLVM
    • 2023 EuroLLVM - Optimizing the Linux Kernel with LLVM BOLT
  • ClangBuiltLinux Meetup 2023
    • Making LLVM Faster with Build Time Optimization - slides
  • Linux Plumbers Conf 2023 - Toolchain track

Blog Posts

• LFCS: Building the kernel with Clang
• Distributions looking at LLVM
• LFCS 2012: LLVM and Linux
• Control Flow Integrity in the Android kernel
• Phoronix LLVMLinux tags
• Building and using Cuttlefish
• Success : Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64 - VMware Player - LLVM/clang-built kernel and kernel modules
• Success : VirtualBox(LLVM/clang-built): Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64(LLVM/clang-built kernel/modules)
• Success: Bring-up of LLVM/clang-built Linux ARM(32-bit) kernel for Android - Nexus 5
• Success : CentOS 7 x86_64 on LLVM/clang-built kernel with LLVM/clang-built : NVIDIA, VirtualBox, VMware Player modules
• Success : Arch Linux x86_64 on LLVM/clang-built and LLVM/LLD-linked : Linux kernel + all modules including that of NVIDIA, VirtualBox, VMware Player
• Success : Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64 on LLVM/clang-built kernel with NVIDIA, VirtualBox, VMware Player modules
• Success : Fedora 28 x86_64 on LLVM/clang-built kernel with LLVM/clang-built : NVIDIA, VirtualBox, VMware Player modules

Papers

• Fast and Precise Symbolic Analysis of Concurrency Bugs in Device Drivers
• Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency: Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers
• Where Does It Go? Refining Indirect-Call Targets with Multi-Layer Type Analysis