10 Aug, 2020
4 commits
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler
- remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags
- fix tar-pkg to install dtbs
- introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax
- allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/
- introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax
- various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
kbuild: always create directories of targets
powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
kbuild: run the checker after the compiler -
To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.
The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda -
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov
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CFLAGS_REMOVE_.o filters out flags when compiling a particular
object, but there is no convenient way to do that for every object in
a directory.Add ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y to make it easily.
Use ccflags-remove-y to clean up some Makefiles.
The add/remove order works as follows:
[1] KBUILD_CFLAGS specifies compiler flags used globally
[2] ccflags-y adds compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile[3] ccflags-remove-y removes compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile (New feature)[4] CFLAGS_ adds compiler flags per file.
[5] CFLAGS_REMOVE_ removes compiler flags per file.
Having [3] before [4] allows us to remove flags from most (but not all)
objects in the current Makefile.For example, kernel/trace/Makefile removes $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
from all objects in the directory, then adds it back to
trace_selftest_dynamic.o and CFLAGS_trace_kprobe_selftest.oThe same applies to lib/livepatch/Makefile.
Please note ccflags-remove-y has no effect to the sub-directories.
In contrast, the previous notation got rid of compiler flags also from
all the sub-directories.The following are not affected because they have no sub-directories:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/
arch/powerpc/xmon/
arch/sh/
kernel/trace/However, lib/ has several sub-directories.
To keep the behavior, I added ccflags-remove-y to all Makefiles
in subdirectories of lib/, except the following:lib/vdso/Makefile - Kbuild does not descend into this Makefile
lib/raid/test/Makefile - This is not used for the kernel buildI think commit 2464a609ded0 ("ftrace: do not trace library functions")
excluded too much. In the next commit, I will remove ccflags-remove-y
from the sub-directories of lib/.Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc)
Acked-by: Brendan Higgins (KUnit)
Tested-by: Anders Roxell
05 Aug, 2020
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
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13 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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Drop the doubled word "the".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-11-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
07 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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Some Makefiles already pass -fno-stack-protector unconditionally.
For example, arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile, arch/x86/xen/Makefile.No problem report so far about hard-coding this option. So, we can
assume all supported compilers know -fno-stack-protector.GCC 4.8 and Clang support this option (https://godbolt.org/z/_HDGzN)
Get rid of cc-option from -fno-stack-protector.
Remove CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, which is always 'y'.
Note:
arch/mips/vdso/Makefile adds -fno-stack-protector twice, first
unconditionally, and second conditionally. I removed the second one.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers
28 Jun, 2020
2 commits
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Commit cd238effefa2 ("docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to
*.rst") missed a ReST header and a verbatim file content area.Signed-off-by: Dov Murik
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada -
Fix typos "plgins" -> "plugins".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Kees Cook
06 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Commit d503ac531a52 ("kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS") missed
to update the documentation.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
25 May, 2020
1 commit
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This is a left-over of commit 39808e451fdf ("kbuild: do not read
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers").Kbuild no longer supports this way.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
17 May, 2020
1 commit
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Kbuild now supports the syntax 'userprogs' to compile userspace
programs for the same architecture as the kernel.Insert the section '5 Userspace Program support' to explain it.
I copy-pasted '4 Host Program support' and fixed it up.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg
23 Apr, 2020
1 commit
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Make it consistent with the other sections.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
09 Apr, 2020
2 commits
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As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst implies, building the kernel with a
full set of LLVM tools gets very verbose and unwieldy.Provide a single switch LLVM=1 to use Clang and LLVM tools instead
of GCC and Binutils. You can pass it from the command line or as an
environment variable.Please note LLVM=1 does not turn on the integrated assembler. You need
to pass LLVM_IAS=1 to use it. When the upstream kernel is ready for the
integrated assembler, I think we can make it default.We discussed what we need, and we agreed to go with a simple boolean
flag that switches both target and host tools:https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/28/494
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/43Some items discussed, but not adopted:
- LLVM_DIR
When multiple versions of LLVM are installed, I just thought supporting
LLVM_DIR=/path/to/my/llvm/bin/ might be useful.CC = $(LLVM_DIR)clang
LD = $(LLVM_DIR)ld.lld
...However, we can handle this by modifying PATH. So, we decided to not do
this.- LLVM_SUFFIX
Some distributions (e.g. Debian) package specific versions of LLVM with
naming conventions that use the version as a suffix.CC = clang$(LLVM_SUFFIX)
LD = ld.lld(LLVM_SUFFIX)
...will allow a user to pass LLVM_SUFFIX=-11 to use clang-11 etc.,
but the suffixed versions in /usr/bin/ are symlinks to binaries in
/usr/lib/llvm-#/bin/, so this can also be handled by PATH.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor # build
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers -
The 'AS' variable is unused for building the kernel. Only the remaining
usage is to turn on the integrated assembler. A boolean flag is a better
fit for this purpose.AS=clang was added for experts. So, I replaced it with LLVM_IAS=1,
breaking the backward compatibility.Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers
08 Apr, 2020
1 commit
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The tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize.
Fixes: fcf1b6a35c16 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM")
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
01 Apr, 2020
1 commit
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Build system:- add CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST, which will be useful to define a
fixed set of export symbols for Generic Kernel Image (GKI)- allow to run 'make dt_binding_check' without .config
- use full schema for checking DT examples in *.yaml files
- make modpost fail for missing MODULE_IMPORT_NS(), which makes more
sense because we know the produced modules are never loadable- Remove unused 'AS' variable
Kconfig:
- sanitize DEFCONFIG_LIST, and remove ARCH_DEFCONFIG from Kconfig
files- relax the 'imply' behavior so that symbols implied by 'y' can
become 'm'- make 'imply' obey 'depends on' in order to make 'imply' really weak
Misc:
- add documentation on building the kernel with Clang/LLVM
- revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc to use optimized strlen()
- fix warning from deb-pkg builds when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n
- various script and Makefile cleanups"
* tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
Makefile: Update kselftest help information
kbuild: deb-pkg: fix warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset
kbuild: add outputmakefile to no-dot-config-targets
kbuild: remove AS variable
net: wan: wanxl: refactor the firmware rebuild rule
net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware
net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware
kbuild: add comment about grouped target
kbuild: add -Wall to KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS
kconfig: remove unused variable in qconf.cc
sparc: revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc
kbuild: refactor Makefile.dtbinst more
kbuild: compute the dtbs_install destination more simply
Makefile: disallow data races on gcc-10 as well
kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency
kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m
net: drop_monitor: use IS_REACHABLE() to guard net_dm_hw_report()
modpost: return error if module is missing ns imports and MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n
modpost: rework and consolidate logging interface
kbuild: allow to run dt_binding_check without kernel configuration
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31 Mar, 2020
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been a busy cycle for documentation work.Highlights include:
- Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...- Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api
manual.- Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.
- Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..."
* tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits)
Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion
docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs
doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory
docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout
docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx
docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst
docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files
Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref
docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning
docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning
docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst
docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings
docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format
Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual
Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual
...
17 Mar, 2020
1 commit
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In order to preserve backwards compatability with kmod tools, we have to
move the namespace field in Module.symvers last, as the depmod -e -E
option looks at the first three fields in Module.symvers to check symbol
versions (and it's expected they stay in the original order of crc,
symbol, module).In addition, update an ancient comment above read_dump() in modpost that
suggested that the export type field in Module.symvers was optional. I
suspect that there were historical reasons behind that comment that are
no longer accurate. We have been unconditionally printing the export
type since 2.6.18 (commit bd5cbcedf44), which is over a decade ago now.Fix up read_dump() to treat each field as non-optional. I suspect the
original read_dump() code treated the export field as optional in order
to support pre
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich
Reviewed-by: Lucas De Marchi
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
13 Mar, 2020
3 commits
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The 'imply' statement may create unmet direct dependency when the
implied symbol depends on m.[Test Code]
config FOO
tristate "foo"
imply BAZconfig BAZ
tristate "baz"
depends on BARconfig BAR
def_tristate mconfig MODULES
def_bool y
option modulesIf you set FOO=y, BAZ is also promoted to y, which results in the
following .config file:CONFIG_FOO=y
CONFIG_BAZ=y
CONFIG_BAR=m
CONFIG_MODULES=yThis does not meet the dependency 'BAZ depends on BAR'.
Unlike 'select', what is worse, Kconfig never shows the
'WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for ...' for this case.Because 'imply' is considered to be weaker than 'depends on', Kconfig
should take the direct dependency into account.For clarification, describe this case in kconfig-language.rst too.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven -
The 'imply' keyword restricts a symbol to y or n, excluding m
when it is implied by y. This is the original behavior since
commit 237e3ad0f195 ("Kconfig: Introduce the "imply" keyword").However, the author of this feature, Nicolas Pitre, stated that
the 'imply' keyword should not impose any restrictions.
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/19/714)I agree, and want to get rid of this tricky behavior.
Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre -
All the files in Documentation/kbuild/ were converted to reST.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
11 Mar, 2020
1 commit
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Information about GCC plugins is relevant to kernel building, so move this
document to the kbuild manual.Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
03 Mar, 2020
1 commit
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Added to kbuild documentation. Provides more official info on building
kernels with Clang and LLVM than our wiki.Suggested-by: Kees Cook
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
27 Feb, 2020
2 commits
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obj-* needs a trailing slash for a directory, but subdir-* does not.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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This sentence does not make sense in the section about mandatory-y.
This seems to be a copy-paste mistake of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi:
export all headers under uapi directories").The correct description would be "The convention is to list one
mandatory-y per line ...".I just removed it instead of fixing it. If such information is needed,
it could be commented in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
04 Feb, 2020
2 commits
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In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.This commit renames like follows:
always -> always-y
hostprogs-y -> hostprogsSo, scripts/Makefile will look like this:
always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ...
...
hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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The difference between "always" and "extra-y" is that the targets
listed in $(always) are always built, whereas the ones in $(extra-y)
are built only when KBUILD_BUILTIN is set.So, "make modules" does not build the targets in $(extra-y).
vmlinux.lds is only needed for linking vmlinux. So, adding it to extra-y
is more correct. In fact, arch/x86/kernel/Makefile does this.Fix the example code.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
02 Feb, 2020
1 commit
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Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- add 'yes2modconfig' and 'mod2yesconfig' targets (useful mainly for
turning syzbot configs into more modular ones as a step to minimizing
the result)- sanitize help text
- various code cleanups
* tag 'kconfig-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: fix documentation typos
kconfig: fix an "implicit declaration of function" warning
kconfig: fix nesting of symbol help text
kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text
kconfig: list all definitions of a symbol in help text
kconfig: Add yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig targets.
kconfig: use $(PERL) in Makefile
kconfig: fix too deep indentation in Makefile
kconfig: localmodconfig: fix indentation for closing brace
kconfig: localmodconfig: remove unused $config
kconfig: squash prop_alloc() into menu_add_prop()
kconfig: remove sym from struct property
kconfig: remove 'prompt' argument from menu_add_prop()
kconfig: move prompt handling to menu_add_prompt() from menu_add_prop()
kconfig: remove 'prompt' symbol
kconfig: drop T_WORD from the RHS of 'prompt' symbol
kconfig: use parent->dep as the parentdep of 'menu'
kconfig: remove the rootmenu check in menu_add_prop()
21 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Fix a couple typos in kconfig-language documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
07 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Commit bc081dd6e9f6 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added
infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all
builtin modules.Basically, it works like this:
- Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of
tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter.- scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into
directories to collect the information of builtin modules.I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing
the source tree twice.I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot
avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate,
some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y.Some examples are:
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y) += nvram.onet/ipv6/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += inet6_hashtables.onet/netlabel/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += netlabel_calipso.oNobody has complained about (or noticed) it, so it is probably fine to
have false positives in modules.builtin.This commit simplifies the implementation. Let's exploit the fact
that every module has MODULE_LICENSE(). (modpost shows a warning if
MODULE_LICENSE is missing. If so, 0-day bot would already have blocked
such a module.)I added MODULE_FILE to . When the code is being compiled
as builtin, it will be filled with the file path of the module, and
collected into modules.builtin.info. Then, scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
extracts the list of builtin modules out of it.This new approach fixes the false-positives above, but adds another
type of false-positives; non-modular code may have MODULE_LICENSE()
by mistake. This is not a big deal, it is just the code is always
orphan. We can clean it up if we like. You can see cleanup examples by:$ git log --grep='make.* explicitly non-modular'
To sum up, this commits deletes lots of code, but still produces almost
equivalent results. Please note it does not increase the vmlinux size at
all. As you can see in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, the .modinfo
section is discarded in the link stage.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
21 Dec, 2019
1 commit
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Kbuild descends into a directory by either 'y' or 'm', but there is an
important difference.Kbuild combines the built-in objects into built-in.a in each directory.
The built-in.a in the directory visited by obj-y is merged into the
built-in.a in the parent directory. This merge happens recursively
when Kbuild is ascending back towards the top directory, then built-in
objects are linked into vmlinux eventually. This works properly only
when the Makefile specifying obj-y is reachable by the chain of obj-y.On the other hand, Kbuild does not take built-in.a from the directory
visited by obj-m. This it, all the objects in that directory are
supposed to be modular. If Kbuild descends into a directory by obj-m,
but the Makefile in the sub-directory specifies obj-y, those objects
are just left orphan.The current statement "Kbuild only uses this information to decide that
it needs to visit the directory" is misleading. Clarify the difference.Reported-by: Johan Hovold
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold
18 Dec, 2019
1 commit
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Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), scripts/checkpatch.pl warns the use of ---help---.Kconfig still supports ---help---, but new code should avoid using it.
Let's stop advertising it in documentation.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
14 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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There are both positive and negative options about this feature.
At first, I thought it was a good idea, but actually Linus stated a
negative opinion (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/29/227). I admit it
is ugly and annoying.The baseline I'd like to keep is the compile-test of uapi headers.
(Otherwise, kernel developers have no way to ensure the correctness
of the exported headers.)I will maintain a small build rule in usr/include/Makefile.
Remove the other header test functionality.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
11 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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Since commit 040fcc819a2e ("kbuild: improved modversioning support for
external modules"), the external module build reads Module.symvers in
the directory of the module itself, then dumps symbols back into it.
It accumulates stale symbols in the file when you build an external
module incrementally.The idea behind it was, as the commit log explained, you can copy
Modules.symvers from one module to another when you need to pass symbol
information between two modules. However, the manual copy of the file
sounds questionable to me, and containing stale symbols is a downside.Some time later, commit 0d96fb20b7ed ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced a saner approach.So, this commit removes the former one. Going forward, the external
module build dumps symbols into Module.symvers to be carried via
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, but never reads it automatically.With the -I option removed, there is no one to set the external_module
flag unless KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is passed. Now the -i option does it
instead.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
12 Oct, 2019
1 commit
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Pull module fixes from Jessica Yu:
"Code cleanups and kbuild/namespace related fixups from Masahiro.Most importantly, it fixes a namespace-related modpost issue for
external module builds- Fix broken external module builds due to a modpost bug in
read_dump(), where the namespace was not being strdup'd and
sym->namespace would be set to bogus data.- Various namespace-related kbuild fixes and cleanups thanks to
Masahiro Yamada"* tag 'modules-for-v5.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/
nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale
nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps
kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree
module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict
modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds
module: swap the order of symbol.namespace
scripts: add_namespace: Fix coccicheck failed
08 Oct, 2019
1 commit
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We discussed a better location for this file, and agreed that
core-api/ is a good fit. Rename it to symbol-namespaces.rst
for disambiguation, and also add it to index.rst and MAINTAINERS.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Matthias Maennich
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu
05 Oct, 2019
2 commits
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In commit 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make
extending kernel easier") a new mechanism was introduced, for kernels
>=5.2, which embeds the kernel headers in the kernel image or a module
and exposes them in procfs for use by userland tools.The archive containing the header files has nondeterminism caused by
header files metadata. This patch normalizes the metadata and utilizes
KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP if provided and otherwise falls back to the
default behaviour.In commit f7b101d33046 ("kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs") it was
modified to use sysfs and the script for generation of the archive was
renamed to what is being patched.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Goldin
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
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Capitalize the first word in the sentence.
Use obj-m instead of obj-y. obj-y still works, but we have no built-in
objects in external module builds. So, obj-m is better IMHO.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
01 Oct, 2019
1 commit
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Minor formatting fixup.
Fixes: cd238effefa2 ("docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst")
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
