21 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers
This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
limited to not being called in NMIs.- Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
SRCU API.- New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.
- Addition of mcount-nop option support
- SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.
- Various other fixes and clean ups.
- Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
the merge window opened.* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
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16 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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Currently if CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is enabled -mrecord-mcount
compiler flag support is tested for every Makefile.Top 4 cc-option usages:
511 -mrecord-mcount
11 -fno-stack-protector
9 -Wno-override-init
2 -fsched-pressureTo address that move cc-option from scripts/Makefile.build to top Makefile
and export CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT to be used in original place.While doing that also add -mrecord-mcount to CC_FLAGS_FTRACE (if gcc
actually supports it).Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/patch-2.thread-aa7b8d.git-de935bace15a.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
09 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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The host-progs has been kept as an alias of hostprogs-y for a long time
(at least since the beginning of Git era), with the clear prompt:
Usage of host-progs is deprecated. Please replace with hostprogs-y!Enough time for the migration has passed.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Max Filippov
06 Jul, 2018
1 commit
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The comment is the same as in the top-level Makefile.
Also, the comments contain typos:
- the .PHONY variable -> the PHONY variable
- se we can ... -> so we can ...Instead of fixing the typos, just remove the duplicated comments.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
22 Jun, 2018
1 commit
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Non gcc-5 builds with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y and
SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 fail.
Example output:
/bin/sh: init/.tmp_main.o: Permission deniedcommit 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace"),
added a mismatched endif. This causes cmd_objtool to get mistakenly
set.Relocate endif to balance the newly added -record-mcount check.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180608214746.136554-1-gthelen@google.com
Fixes: 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Tested-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
07 Jun, 2018
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now
supports triggers. For example:# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
# echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_markerThe rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix
that was added late in the cycle"* tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits)
tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options()
branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment
ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments
tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers
ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters
ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful
tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events
tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events
tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string
tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print
tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays
tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers
tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio}
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29 May, 2018
1 commit
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gcc 5 supports a new -mcount-record option to generate ftrace
tables directly. This avoids the need to run record_mcount
manually.Use this option when available.
So far doesn't use -mcount-nop, which also exists now.
This is needed to make ftrace work with LTO because the
normal record-mcount script doesn't run over the link
time output.It should also improve build times slightly in the general
case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127213423.27218-12-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
17 May, 2018
2 commits
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CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a976072 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc17 ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
Clean up the rest of scripts, and remove the Kconfig entry.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg -
CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a976072 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc17 ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
hence the -s (--symbol-prefix) option is unnecessary.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg
07 Apr, 2018
4 commits
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GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
in a chain of pattern rules.Example 1) %.dtb.o
Acked-by: Frank Rowand
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar -
Our convention is to distinguish file types by suffixes with a period
as a separator.*-asn1.[ch] is a different pattern from other generated sources such
as *.lex.c, *.tab.[ch], *.dtb.S, etc. More confusing, files with
'-asn1.[ch]' are generated files, but '_asn1.[ch]' are checked-in
files:
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.h
include/linux/sunrpc/gss_asn1.hRename generated files to *.asn1.[ch] for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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Another common pattern that consists of chained commands is to compile
a DTB as binary data into the kernel image or a module. It is used in
several places in the source tree. Support it in the core Makefile.$(call if_changed,dt_S_dtb) is more suitable than $(call cmd,dt_S_dtb)
in case cmd_dt_S_dtb is changed in the future.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Frank Rowand -
Files generated by if_changed* must be added to 'targets' to include
*.cmd files. Otherwise, they would be regenerated every time.The build system automatically adds objects to 'targets' where
appropriate, such as obj-y, extra-y, etc. but does nothing for
intermediate files. So, each Makefile needs to add them by itself.There are some common cases where objects are generated by chained
rules. Lexers and parsers are compiled like follows:%.lex.o
Acked-by: Frank Rowand
26 Mar, 2018
10 commits
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cmd_link_multi-link is used only for cmd_link_multi-m.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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With the incremental linking entirely dropped, we can simplify
the Makefile.While I am here, I renamed cmd_link_o_target to cmd_ar_builtin.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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When built-in.o was incrementally linked with 'ld -r', the section
mismatch analysis for the individual built-in.o was possible when
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH was enabled.With the migration to the thin archive, built-in.a (former, built-in.o)
is no longer an ELF file. So, the modpost does nothing useful.
scripts/mod/modpost.c just checks the header to bail out, as follows:/* Is this a valid ELF file? */
if ((hdr->e_ident[EI_MAG0] != ELFMAG0) ||
(hdr->e_ident[EI_MAG1] != ELFMAG1) ||
(hdr->e_ident[EI_MAG2] != ELFMAG2) ||
(hdr->e_ident[EI_MAG3] != ELFMAG3)) {
/* Not an ELF file - silently ignore it */
return 0;
}We have the full analysis in the final link stage anyway, so we would
not miss the section mismatching.I do not see a good reason to require extra linking only for the
purpose of the per-directory analysis. Just get rid of this part.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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In Kbuild, Makefiles can add the same object to obj-y multiple
times. So,obj-y += foo.o
obj-y += foo.ois fine.
However, this is not true when the same object is added multiple
times via composite objects. For example,obj-y += foo.o bar.o
foo-objs := foo-bar-common.o foo-only.o
bar-objs := foo-bar-common.o bar-only.ocauses build error because two instances of foo-bar-common.o are
linked into the vmlinux.Makefiles tend to invent ugly work-around, for example
- lib/zstd/Makefile
- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/MakefileThe technique used in Kbuild to avoid the multiple definition error
is to use $(filter $(obj-y), $^). Here, $^ lists the names of all
the prerequisites with duplicated names removed.By replacing it with $(filter $(real-obj-y), $^) we can do likewise
for composite objects. For built-in objects, we do not need to keep
the composite object structure. We can simply expand them, and link
$(real-obj-y) to built-in.a.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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When I was refactoring Makefiles, I stupidly mistook 'real-obj-y' for
'real-objs-y' over and over again. Finally, I decide to rename it to
'real-obj-y'. This is consistent with 'obj-y', 'subdir-obj-y'.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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Just a cosmetic change to put related code close together.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Cao jin -
modname can be calculated much more simply. If modname-multi is
empty, it is a single-used object. So, modname = $(basetarget).
Otherwise, modname = $(modname-multi).Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Cao jin -
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
is the usual extension for archive files.This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:
git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'
The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:-libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
+libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada -
This removes the old `ld -r` incremental link option, which has not
been selected by any architecture since June 2017.Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada -
* Use BREs where EREs aren't necessary.
* Pass -E instead of -r to use EREs. This will be standardized in the
next POSIX revision[0]. GNU sed supports this since 4.2 (May 2009),
and busybox since 1.22.0 (Jan 2014).
* Use the [:space:] character class instead of ` \t` in bracket
expressions. In bracket expressions, POSIX says that loses
its special meaning, so a conforming implementation cannot expand \t
to [1].
* In BREs, use interval expressions (\{n,m\}) instead of non-standard
features like \+ and \?.
* Use a loop instead of -s flag.There are still plenty of other cases of non-standard sed invocations
(use of ERE features in BREs, in-place editing), but this fixes some
core ones.[0] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=528
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05Signed-off-by: Michael Forney
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
21 Feb, 2018
3 commits
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Disable retpoline validation in objtool if your compiler sucks, and otherwise
select the validation stuff for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y (most builds would already
have it set due to ORC).Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
David allowed retpolines in .init.text, except for modules, which will
trip up objtool retpoline validation, fix that.Requested-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
David requested a objtool validation pass for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y enabled
builds, where it validates no unannotated indirect jumps or calls are
left.Add an additional .discard.retpoline_safe section to allow annotating
the few indirect sites that are required and safe.Requested-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
18 Jan, 2018
1 commit
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Pull x86 pti bits and fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This last update contains:- An objtool fix to prevent a segfault with the gold linker by
changing the invocation order. That's not just for gold, it's a
general robustness improvement.- An improved error message for objtool which spares tearing hairs.
- Make KASAN fail loudly if there is not enough memory instead of
oopsing at some random place later- RSB fill on context switch to prevent RSB underflow and speculation
through other units.- Make the retpoline/RSB functionality work reliably for both Intel
and AMD- Add retpoline to the module version magic so mismatch can be
detected- A small (non-fix) update for cpufeatures which prevents cpu feature
clashing for the upcoming extra mitigation bits to ease
backporting"* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features
objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker
x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
x86/kasan: Panic if there is not enough memory to boot
16 Jan, 2018
1 commit
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Objtool segfaults when the gold linker is used with
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y and CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y.With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y, the .o file gets passed to the linker before
being passed to objtool. The gold linker seems to strip unused ELF
symbols by default, which confuses objtool and causes the seg fault when
it's trying to generate ORC metadata.Objtool should really be running immediately after GCC anyway, without a
linker call in between. Change the makefile ordering so that objtool is
called before the linker.Reported-and-tested-by: Markus
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Fixes: ee9f8fce9964 ("x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/355f04da33581f4a3bf82e5b512973624a1e23a2.1516025651.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Dec, 2017
1 commit
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Pull in a minimal set of v4.15 entry code changes, for a base for the MM isolation patches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
26 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- use 'pwd' instead of '/bin/pwd' for portability
- clean up Makefiles
- fix ld-option for clang
- fix malloc'ed data size in Kconfig
- fix parallel building along with coccicheck
- fix a minor issue of package building
- prompt to use "rpm-pkg" instead of "rpm"
- clean up *.i and *.lst patterns by "make clean"
* tag 'kbuild-v4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: drop $(extra-y) from real-objs-y
kbuild: clean up *.i and *.lst patterns by make clean
kbuild: rpm: prompt to use "rpm-pkg" if "rpm" target is used
kbuild: pkg: use --transform option to prefix paths in tar
coccinelle: fix parallel build with CHECK=scripts/coccicheck
kconfig/symbol.c: use correct pointer type argument for sizeof
kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch Makefile
kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj-
kbuild: create built-in.o automatically if parent directory wants it
kbuild: /bin/pwd -> pwd
24 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait.There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build
enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build
(but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)"* tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments
Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt
documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file
kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example
kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive"
Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
21 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Implement a '-none' output mode for kernel-doc which will only output
warning messages, and suppresses the warning message about there being
no kernel-doc in the file.If the build has requested additional warnings, automatically check all
.c files. This patch does not check .h files. Enabling the warning
by default would add about 1300 warnings, so it's default off for now.
People who care can use this to check they didn't break the docs and
maybe we'll get all the warnings fixed and be able to enable this check
by default in the future.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
18 Nov, 2017
2 commits
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"obj-y += foo/" syntax requires Kbuild to visit the "foo" subdirectory
and link built-in.o from that directory. This means foo/Makefile is
responsible for creating built-in.o even if there is no object to
link (in this case, built-in.o is an empty archive).We have had several fixups like commit 4b024242e8a4 ("kbuild: Fix
linking error built-in.o no such file or directory"), then ended up
with a complex condition as follows:ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-) $(subdir-m) $(lib-target)),)
builtin-target := $(obj)/built-in.o
endifWe still have more cases not covered by the above, so we need to add
obj- := dummy.o
in several places just for creating empty built-in.o.A key point is, the parent Makefile knows whether built-in.o is needed
or not. If a subdirectory needs to create built-in.o, its parent can
tell the fact when descending.If non-empty $(need-builtin) flag is passed from the parent, built-in.o
should be created. $(obj-y) should be still checked to support the
single target "%/". All of ugly tricks will go away.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg -
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"One of the most remarkable improvements in this cycle is, Kbuild is
now able to cache the result of shell commands. Some variables are
expensive to compute, for example, $(call cc-option,...) invokes the
compiler. It is not efficient to redo this computation every time,
even when we are not actually building anything. Kbuild creates a
hidden file ".cache.mk" that contains invoked shell commands and their
results. The speed-up should be noticeable.Summary:
- Fix arch build issues (hexagon, sh)
- Clean up various Makefiles and scripts
- Fix wrong usage of {CFLAGS,LDFLAGS}_MODULE in arch Makefiles
- Cache variables that are expensive to compute
- Improve cc-ldopton and ld-option for Clang
- Optimize output directory creation"
* tag 'kbuild-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (30 commits)
kbuild: move coccicheck help from scripts/Makefile.help to top Makefile
sh: decompressor: add shipped files to .gitignore
frv: .gitignore: ignore vmlinux.lds
selinux: remove unnecessary assignment to subdir-
kbuild: specify FORCE in Makefile.headersinst as .PHONY target
kbuild: remove redundant mkdir from ./Kbuild
kbuild: optimize object directory creation for incremental build
kbuild: create object directories simpler and faster
kbuild: filter-out PHONY targets from "targets"
kbuild: remove redundant $(wildcard ...) for cmd_files calculation
kbuild: create directory for make cache only when necessary
sh: select KBUILD_DEFCONFIG depending on ARCH
kbuild: fix linker feature test macros when cross compiling with Clang
kbuild: shrink .cache.mk when it exceeds 1000 lines
kbuild: do not call cc-option before KBUILD_CFLAGS initialization
kbuild: Cache a few more calls to the compiler
kbuild: Add a cache for generated variables
kbuild: add forward declaration of default target to Makefile.asm-generic
kbuild: remove KBUILD_SUBDIR_ASFLAGS and KBUILD_SUBDIR_CCFLAGS
hexagon/kbuild: replace CFLAGS_MODULE with KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE
...
16 Nov, 2017
4 commits
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The previous commit largely optimized the object directory creation.
We can optimize it more for incremental build.There are already *.cmd files in the output directory. The existing
*.cmd files have been picked up by $(wildcard ...). Obviously,
directories containing them exist too, so we can skip "mkdir -p".With this, Kbuild runs almost zero "mkdir -p" in incremental building.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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For the out-of-tree build, scripts/Makefile.build creates output
directories, but this operation is not efficient.scripts/Makefile.lib calculates obj-dirs as follows:
obj-dirs := $(dir $(multi-objs) $(obj-y))
Please notice $(sort ...) is not used here. Usually the result is
as many "./" as objects here.For a lot of duplicated paths, the following command is invoked.
_dummy := $(foreach d,$(obj-dirs), $(shell [ -d $(d) ] || mkdir -p $(d)))
Then, the costly shell command is run over and over again.
I see many points for optimization:
[1] Use $(sort ...) to cut down duplicated paths before passing them
to system call
[2] Use single $(shell ...) instead of repeating it with $(foreach ...)
This will reduce forking.
[3] We can calculate obj-dirs more simply. Most of objects are already
accumulated in $(targets). So, $(dir $(targets)) is fine and more
comprehensive.I also removed ugly code in arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile. This is now
really unnecessary.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson -
The variable "targets" contains object paths for which existing .*.cmd
files should be included.scripts/Makefile.build automatically adds $(MAKECMDGOALS) to "targets"
as follows:targets += $(extra-y) $(MAKECMDGOALS) $(always)
The $(MAKECMDGOALS) is a PHONY target in several places. PHONY targets
never create .*.cmd files.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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I do not see any reason why $(wildcard ...) needs to be called twice
for computing cmd_files. Remove the first one.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
07 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/MakefileSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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For some odd historical reason, we preprocessed the linker scripts with
"-C", which keeps comments around. That makes no sense, since the
comments are not meaningful for the build anyway.And it actually breaks things, since linker scripts can't have C++ style
"//" comments in them, so keeping comments after preprocessing now
limits us in odd and surprising ways in our header files for no good
reason.The -C option goes back to pre-git and pre-bitkeeper times, but seems to
have been historically used (along with "-traditional") for some
odd-ball architectures (ia64, MIPS and SH). It probably didn't matter
back then either, but might possibly have been used to minimize the
difference between the original file and the pre-processed result.The reason for this may be lost in time, but let's not perpetuate it
only because we can't remember why we did this crazy thing.This was triggered by the recent addition of SPDX lines to the source
tree, where people apparently were confused about why header files
couldn't use the C++ comment format.Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds