25 Jun, 2009

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19 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
    kernel. gcov may be useful for:

    * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
    * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
    * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
    associated code is never run?)

    The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:

    * change kbuild to include profiling flags
    * provide functions needed by profiling code
    * present profiling data as files in debugfs

    Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
    "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
    run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
    others which require adjustment of architecture code.

    For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
    to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
    This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
    and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
    or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
    text).

    [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html

    Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Huang Ying
    Cc: Li Wei
    Cc: Michael Ellerman
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Rusty Russell
    Cc: WANG Cong
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Oberparleiter
     

15 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
    .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
    kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
    kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
    kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
    kallsyms: generalize text region handling
    kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
    documentation: make version fix
    kbuild: fix a compile warning
    gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
    kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
    README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
    vmlinux.lds.h update
    kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
    Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
    kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
    kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
    kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
    ignore *.patch files
    Remove bashisms from scripts
    menu: fix embedded menu presentation
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

10 Jun, 2009

2 commits

  • Linus Torvalds
     
  • The GNU make's origin function know undefined variable well,
    so the outer ifdef/endif conditional checking is unneeded.

    From `info make` documentation, origin will return

    `undefined'
    if VARIABLE was never defined.
    `command line'
    if VARIABLE was defined on the command line.
    ...

    Therefore, $(origin V) will get a value anyway, killing ifdef/endif is
    viable and safe.

    Furthermore, I've checked the minimal requirements from
    Documentation/Changes is GNU make 3.79.1, and that version of GNU make
    has support of origin function well already, so now it's safe to kill
    the outer conditional checking, without upgrading the minimal
    requirements.

    Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

    Cheng Renquan
     

05 Jun, 2009

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24 May, 2009

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09 May, 2009

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30 Apr, 2009

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19 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • We need a location for generated files.
    Today they are spread over several places and bringing them
    together to a common place makes it obvious hat is generated
    and what isreal files.

    Al Viro originally suggested: include/gen
    Linus suggested to spell it out.

    This patch implement support for

    include/generated

    All files in include/generated are ignored by git.
    include/generated is removed during "make mrproper".

    With this we are ready to implement support for include/generated
    in the various architctures and in the base kernel.

    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Linus Torvalds

    Sam Ravnborg
     

15 Apr, 2009

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14 Apr, 2009

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11 Apr, 2009

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08 Apr, 2009

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28 Mar, 2009

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24 Mar, 2009

2 commits

  • Linus Torvalds
     
  • With a sufficiently new compiler and binutils, code which wasn't
    previously generating .eh_frame sections has begun to. Certain
    architectures (powerpc, in this case) may generate unexpected relocation
    formats in response to this, preventing modules from loading.

    While the new relocation types should probably be handled, revert to the
    previous behaviour with regards to generation of .eh_frame sections.

    (This was reported against Fedora, which appears to be the only distro
    doing any building against gcc-4.4 at present: RH bz#486545.)

    Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
    Acked-by: Roland McGrath
    Cc: Alexandre Oliva
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Kyle McMartin
     

20 Mar, 2009

2 commits

  • Sam Ravnborg says:
    "We have several architectures that plays strange games with $(CC) and
    $(CROSS_COMPILE).

    So we need to postpone any use of $(call cc-option..) until we have
    included the arch specific Makefile so we try with the correct $(CC)
    version."

    Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping
    arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie
    things like

    if (ptr + offset < ptr)

    which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See

    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597

    for details.

    Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional
    (it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).

    Reminded-by: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

13 Mar, 2009

1 commit


07 Mar, 2009

2 commits

  • Following a thread on busybox mailing list
    depmod -r option is ignored by module-init-tools depmod
    -r option break busybox depmod.

    So the best solution look to remove -r from kernel Makefile

    Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

    Gilles Espinasse
     
  • Running 'make rpm' fails when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and using a kernel source
    tree under SCM. This is due to KERNELRELEASE being different when the initial make
    is run and when make is run from rpmbuild.

    mkspec creates kernel.spec using KERNELRELEASE:

    echo "%files"
    echo '%defattr (-, root, root)'
    echo "%dir /lib/modules"
    echo "/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
    echo "/lib/firmware"
    echo "/boot/*"
    echo ""

    When CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y scripts/setlocalversion is called and grabs any
    additional version info from SCM. Next, the srctree is tarred up and SCM
    information is excluded.

    rpmbuild reruns make and in the process generates a new include/config/kernel.release
    and thus a new KERNELRELEASE. However this time the SCM information is gone so
    KERNELRELEASE no longer has the additional version information. When "make modules_install"
    runs, it uses the new KERNELRELEASE value to determine where to install the modules.
    This conflicts with where the spec file assumes they are going because of the
    mis-matching KERNELRELEASE versions.

    + INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root
    + make -j16 modules_install
    INSTALL crypto/aead.ko
    INSTALL crypto/cbc.ko
    INSTALL crypto/chainiv.ko
    INSTALL crypto/crc32c.ko
    INSTALL crypto/crypto_algapi.ko
    INSTALL crypto/crypto_blkcipher.ko
    INSTALL crypto/crypto_hash.ko
    INSTALL crypto/cryptomgr.ko
    INSTALL crypto/ecb.ko
    INSTALL crypto/eseqiv.ko
    INSTALL crypto/krng.ko
    INSTALL crypto/md5.ko
    INSTALL crypto/pcbc.ko
    INSTALL crypto/rng.ko
    INSTALL drivers/block/cciss.ko
    INSTALL drivers/hid/hid-dummy.ko
    INSTALL drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko
    INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi.ko
    INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi_tcp.ko
    INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.ko
    INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
    INSTALL fs/lockd/lockd.ko
    INSTALL fs/nfs/nfs.ko
    INSTALL fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko
    INSTALL lib/libcrc32c.ko
    INSTALL net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko
    DEPMOD 2.6.29-rc4-tip
    + cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
    + cp System.map
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/System.map-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
    + cp .config
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/config-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
    + cp vmlinux vmlinux.orig
    + bzip2 -9 vmlinux
    + mv vmlinux.bz2
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinux-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422.bz2
    + mv vmlinux.orig vmlinux
    + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
    Processing files: kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-2
    error: File not found:
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422

    RPM build errors:
    File not found:
    /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
    make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
    make: *** [rpm] Error 2

    I have tested this patch on git -tip, Linus' git tree, and the kernel.org tar files, both
    with and without CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y.

    Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
    ----

    Josh Hunt
     

04 Mar, 2009

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15 Feb, 2009

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  • It's useful to already have the source symlink in a
    objdir when one just runs make *config. Then one
    can do

    mkdir obj-allyes
    cd obj-allyes
    make -C ../sourcedir O=$(pwd) allyesconfig
    ./source/scripts/config --disable debug_info
    make CC=icecc -j18

    without having to interrupt the make first just to
    get the source symlink.

    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
    [sam: deleted the other source symlink statement]
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

    Andi Kleen
     

14 Feb, 2009

1 commit


10 Feb, 2009

1 commit

  • Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup

    Stackprotector make rules had the following problems.

    * cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and
    kernel/panic.c.

    * -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration.

    Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile
    and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off. While at
    it, prepare for 32bit support.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Tejun Heo
     

09 Feb, 2009

1 commit


29 Jan, 2009

1 commit