Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)
I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.
If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.
Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
SUBDIRS has been kept as a backward compatibility since
commit ("[PATCH] kbuild: external module support") in 2002.
We do not need multiple ways to do the same thing, so I will remove
SUBDIRS after the Linux 5.3 release. I cleaned up in-tree code, and
updated the document so that nobody would try to use it.
Meanwhile, display the following warning if SUBDIRS is used.
Makefile:189: ================= WARNING ================
Makefile:190: 'SUBDIRS' will be removed after Linux 5.3
Makefile:191: Please use 'M=' or 'KBUILD_EXTMOD' instead
Makefile:192: ==========================================
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> # for scx200_docflash.c
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> # for scx200_wdt.c
The last user of cc-fullversion was removed by commit f2910f0e68
("powerpc: remove old GCC version checks").
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, Kconfig does not complain about the recursive dependency
where 'imply' keywords are involved.
[Test Code]
config A
bool "a"
config B
bool "b"
imply A
depends on A
In the code above, Kconfig cannot calculate the symbol values correctly
due to the circular dependency. For example, allyesconfig followed by
syncconfig results in an odd behavior because CONFIG_B becomes visible
in syncconfig.
$ make allyesconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --allyesconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#
$ cat .config
#
# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
# Main menu
#
CONFIG_A=y
$ make syncconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig
*
* Restart config...
*
*
* Main menu
*
a (A) [Y/n/?] y
b (B) [N/y/?] (NEW)
To detect this correctly, sym_check_expr_deps() should recurse to
not only sym->rev_dep.expr but also sym->implied.expr .
At this moment, sym_check_print_recursive() cannot distinguish
'select' and 'imply' since it does not know the precise context
where the recursive dependency has been hit. This will be solved
by the next commit.
In fact, even the document and the unit-test are confused. Using
'imply' does not solve recursive dependency since 'imply' addresses
the unmet direct dependency, which 'select' could cause.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
- show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
installed
- rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics
- create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead
of Makefile
- update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked
- use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory
- do not try to update the .config when running install targets
- add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files
- misc cleanups and fixes
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
installed
- rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics
- create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of
Makefile
- update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked
- use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory
- do not try to update the .config when running install targets
- add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files
- misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: remove P_ENV property type
kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function
kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol
init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname
Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory
kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets
kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease'
kbuild: do not update config when running install targets
kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target
kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile
kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing
kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count
kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself
kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config
kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c
kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c
kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt
kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback()
kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE
kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
Fix a couple of punctuation "typos" in the description of the
"choice" keyword.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Users of if_changed could easily feel invited to use it to divide a
recipe into parts like:
a: prereq FORCE
$(call if_changed,do_a)
$(call if_changed,do_b)
But this is problematic, because if_changed should not be used more
than once per target: in the above example, if_changed stores the
command-line of the given command in .a.cmd and when a is up-to-date
with respect to prereq, the file .a.cmd contains the command-line for
the last command executed, i.e. do_b.
When the recipe is then executed again, without any change of
prerequisites, the command-line check for do_a will fail, do_a will be
executed and stored in .a.cmd. The next check, however, will still see
the old content (the file isn't re-read) and if_changed will skip
do_b, because the command-line test will not recognize a change. On
the next execution of the recipe the roles will flip: do_a is OK but
do_b not and it will be executed. And so on...
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Now that we have the rename in place, reuse the HOST*FLAGS options as
something that can be set from the command line and included with the
rest of the flags.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
In preparation for enabling command line CFLAGS, re-name HOSTCFLAGS to
KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS as the internal use only flags. This should not have
any visible effects.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Add usage info for the Kbuild environment variable KBUILD_KCONFIG.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Update Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt, which mostly contains
user help for using the kernel config tools.
- Add mention of 'nconfig' embedded help text.
- Make the section on new config symbols readable.
- Correct how to find menuconfig search help.
- Add section on 'nconfig' usage.
- Mention that gconfig has multiple viewing modes/options.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Removed Kbuild documentation for INSTALL_FW_PATH.
The kbuild symbol INSTALL_FW_PATH was removed from Kbuild tools in
September 2017 (for 4.14) but the symbol was not deleted from
the kbuild documentation, so do that now.
Fixes: 5620a0d1aa ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The supported alias for building sparc 32-bit is "sparc32",
not "sparc", so update the alias documentation for that.
Just using "sparc" produces a 64-bit config file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
In Kbuild documentation, add alias for 64-bit sh ARCH ("sh64")
to the list of ARCH aliases.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
I saw this type of Kconfig construct on LKML:
config SYMBOOL
#bool "prompt string"
default y
and wondered what it does. Then I wondered if '#' comments are
even documented. They aren't, so add a little doc for that.
Ah, good. kconfig says:
arch/x86/Kconfig:2942:warning: config symbol defined without type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.
That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.
HOWEVER.
It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like
CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y
and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:
CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
# CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y
That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.
The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one. This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).
This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:
CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y
where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It would be nice if the source code is written in the same style.
This proposes the convention for describing the compiler capability
in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Add a document for the macro language introduced to Kconfig.
The motivation of this work is to move the compiler option tests to
Kconfig from Makefile. A number of kernel features require the
compiler support. Enabling such features blindly in Kconfig ends up
with a lot of nasty build-time testing in Makefiles. If a chosen
feature turns out unsupported by the compiler, what the build system
can do is either to disable it (silently!) or to forcibly break the
build, despite Kconfig has let the user to enable it. By moving the
compiler capability tests to Kconfig, features unsupported by the
compiler will be hidden automatically.
This change was strongly prompted by Linus Torvalds. You can find
his suggestions [1] [2] in ML. The original idea was to add a new
attribute with 'option shell=...', but I found more generalized text
expansion would make Kconfig more powerful and lovely. The basic
ideas are from Make, but there are some differences.
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/9/577
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/7/527
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To get access to environment variables, Kconfig needs to define a
symbol using "option env=" syntax. It is tedious to add a symbol entry
for each environment variable given that we need to define much more
such as 'CC', 'AS', 'srctree' etc. to evaluate the compiler capability
in Kconfig.
Adding '$' for symbol references is grammatically inconsistent.
Looking at the code, the symbols prefixed with 'S' are expanded by:
- conf_expand_value()
This is used to expand 'arch/$ARCH/defconfig' and 'defconfig_list'
- sym_expand_string_value()
This is used to expand strings in 'source' and 'mainmenu'
All of them are fixed values independent of user configuration. So,
they can be changed into the direct expansion instead of symbols.
This change makes the code much cleaner. The bounce symbols 'SRCARCH',
'ARCH', 'SUBARCH', 'KERNELVERSION' are gone.
sym_init() hard-coding 'UNAME_RELEASE' is also gone. 'UNAME_RELEASE'
should be replaced with an environment variable.
ARCH_DEFCONFIG is a normal symbol, so it should be simply referenced
without '$' prefix.
The new syntax is addicted by Make. The variable reference needs
parentheses, like $(FOO), but you can omit them for single-letter
variables, like $F. Yet, in Makefiles, people tend to use the
parenthetical form for consistency / clarification.
At this moment, only the environment variable is supported, but I will
extend the concept of 'variable' later on.
The variables are expanded in the lexer so we can simplify the token
handling on the parser side.
For example, the following code works.
[Example code]
config MY_TOOLCHAIN_LIST
string
default "My tools: CC=$(CC), AS=$(AS), CPP=$(CPP)"
[Result]
$ make -s alldefconfig && tail -n 1 .config
CONFIG_MY_TOOLCHAIN_LIST="My tools: CC=gcc, AS=as, CPP=gcc -E"
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
- improve checkpatch for more precise Kconfig code checking
- clarify effective selects by grouping reverse dependencies in help
- do not write out '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' from invisible symbols
- make oldconfig as silent as it should be
- rename 'silentoldconfig' to 'syncconfig'
- add unit-test framework and several test cases
- warn unmet dependency of tristate symbols
- make unmet dependency warnings readable, removing false positives
- improve recursive include detection
- use yylineno to simplify the line number tracking
- misc cleanups
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- improve checkpatch for more precise Kconfig code checking
- clarify effective selects by grouping reverse dependencies in help
- do not write out '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' from invisible symbols
- make oldconfig as silent as it should be
- rename 'silentoldconfig' to 'syncconfig'
- add unit-test framework and several test cases
- warn unmet dependency of tristate symbols
- make unmet dependency warnings readable, removing false positives
- improve recursive include detection
- use yylineno to simplify the line number tracking
- misc cleanups
* tag 'kconfig-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (30 commits)
kconfig: use yylineno option instead of manual lineno increments
kconfig: detect recursive inclusion earlier
kconfig: remove duplicated file name and lineno of recursive inclusion
kconfig: do not include both curses.h and ncurses.h for nconfig
kconfig: make unmet dependency warnings readable
kconfig: warn unmet direct dependency of tristate symbols selected by y
kconfig: tests: test if recursive inclusion is detected
kconfig: tests: test if recursive dependencies are detected
kconfig: tests: test randconfig for choice in choice
kconfig: tests: test defconfig when two choices interact
kconfig: tests: check visibility of tristate choice values in y choice
kconfig: tests: check unneeded "is not set" with unmet dependency
kconfig: tests: test if new symbols in choice are asked
kconfig: tests: test automatic submenu creation
kconfig: tests: add basic choice tests
kconfig: tests: add framework for Kconfig unit testing
kbuild: add PYTHON2 and PYTHON3 variables
kconfig: remove redundant streamline_config.pl prerequisite
kconfig: rename silentoldconfig to syncconfig
kconfig: invoke oldconfig instead of silentoldconfig from local*config
...
As commit cedd55d49d ("kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help
and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help") mentioned, 'silentoldconfig' is a
historical misnomer. That commit removed it from help and docs since
it is an internal interface. If so, it should be allowed to rename
it to something more intuitive. 'syncconfig' is the one I came up
with because it updates the .config if necessary, then synchronize
include/generated/autoconf.h and include/config/* with it.
You should not manually invoke 'silentoldcofig'. Display warning if
used in case existing scripts are doing wrong.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt lists variables used in Makefile
whereas Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt describes user assignable
parameters given via environments or the command line.
The top Makefile and arch/*/Makefile accumulate proper linker flags to
LDFLAGS_vmlinux. So, users can not override it from the command line.
Generally, per-file options are not supposed to be user-assignable.
Remove the misleading entry from kbuild.txt.
If we need a way to append user-specific flags for linking the kernel,
LDFLAGS_KERNEL would be a consistent choice because we already expose
LDFLAGS_MODULE counter-part to users.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt lists variables used in Makefile
whereas Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt describes user assignable
parameters given via environments or the command line.
LDFLAGS_MODULE is a command line interface, so it should be dropped
from makefiles.txt.
Some lines below in this file, it is clearly explained that
KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE is the right one for the internal use:
KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE Options for $(LD) when linking modules
$(KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE) is used to add arch-specific options
used when linking modules. This is often a linker script.
From commandline LDFLAGS_MODULE shall be used (see kbuild.txt).
Then, kbuild.txt explains LDFLAGS_MODULE, like follows:
LDFLAGS_MODULE
--------------------------------------------------
Additional options used for $(LD) when linking modules.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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 <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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 <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
documentation, errseq documentation, kernel-doc support for nested
structure definitions, the removal of lots of crufty kernel-doc support for
unused formats, SPDX tag documentation, the beginnings of a manual for
subsystem maintainers, and lots of fixes and updates.
As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to effect
kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES directory, of which
Thomas promises I do not need to be the maintainer.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Documentation updates for 4.16.
New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
and lots of fixes and updates.
As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
maintainer"
* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
LICENSES: Add the MIT license
LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
errseq: Add to documentation tree
...
Since commit 31847b67be ("kconfig: allow use of relations other than
(in)equality") it is possible to use relational operators in Kconfig
statements. However, those operators give unexpected results when
applied to bool/tristate values:
(n < y) = y (correct)
(m < y) = y (correct)
(n < m) = n (wrong)
This happens because relational operators process bool and tristate
symbols as strings and m sorts before n. It makes little sense to do a
lexicographical compare on bool and tristate values though.
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt states that expression can have
a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2 respectively for calculations).
Let's make it so for relational comparisons with bool/tristate
expressions as well and document them. If at least one symbol is an
actual string then the lexicographical compare works just as before.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Document the preference [1] for new CONFIG options to "default n" (or
not use default at all) in order to minimizes changes to the config,
especially to avoid "make oldconfig" growing unnecessarily from release
to release.
Document the exceptions where it is acceptable to use "default y/m" for
new CONFIG options.
1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/18/257
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- kbuild cleanups and improvements for dtbs
- Code clean-up of overlay code and fixing for some long standing memory
leak and race condition in applying overlays
- Improvements to DT memory usage making sysfs/kobjects optional and
skipping unflattening of disabled nodes. This is part of kernel
tinification efforts.
- Final piece of removing storing the full path for every DT node. The
prerequisite conversion of printk's to use device_node format
specifier happened in 4.14.
- Sync with current upstream dtc. This brings additional checks to dtb
compiling.
- Binding doc tree wide removal of leading 0s from examples
- RTC binding documentation adding missing devices and some
consolidation of duplicated bindings
- Vendor prefix documentation for nutsboard, Silicon Storage Technology,
shimafuji, Tecon Microprocessor Technologies, DH electronics GmbH,
Opal Kelly, and Next Thing
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Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux
Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
"A bigger diffstat than usual with the kbuild changes and a tree wide
fix in the binding documentation.
Summary:
- kbuild cleanups and improvements for dtbs
- Code clean-up of overlay code and fixing for some long standing
memory leak and race condition in applying overlays
- Improvements to DT memory usage making sysfs/kobjects optional and
skipping unflattening of disabled nodes. This is part of kernel
tinification efforts.
- Final piece of removing storing the full path for every DT node.
The prerequisite conversion of printk's to use device_node format
specifier happened in 4.14.
- Sync with current upstream dtc. This brings additional checks to
dtb compiling.
- Binding doc tree wide removal of leading 0s from examples
- RTC binding documentation adding missing devices and some
consolidation of duplicated bindings
- Vendor prefix documentation for nutsboard, Silicon Storage
Technology, shimafuji, Tecon Microprocessor Technologies, DH
electronics GmbH, Opal Kelly, and Next Thing"
* tag 'devicetree-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (55 commits)
dt-bindings: usb: add #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
dt-bindings: Remove leading zeros from bindings notation
kbuild: handle dtb-y and CONFIG_OF_ALL_DTBS natively in Makefile.lib
MIPS: dts: remove bogus bcm96358nb4ser.dtb from dtb-y entry
kbuild: clean up *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns from top-level Makefile
.gitignore: move *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns to the top-level .gitignore
.gitignore: sort normal pattern rules alphabetically
dt-bindings: add vendor prefix for Next Thing Co.
scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.4.5-6-gc1e55a5513e9
of: dynamic: fix memory leak related to properties of __of_node_dup
of: overlay: make pr_err() string unique
of: overlay: pr_err from return NOTIFY_OK to overlay apply/remove
of: overlay: remove unneeded check for NULL kbasename()
of: overlay: remove a dependency on device node full_name
of: overlay: simplify applying symbols from an overlay
of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays
of: overlay: loosen overly strict phandle clash check
of: overlay: expand check of whether overlay changeset can be removed
of: overlay: detect cases where device tree may become corrupt
of: overlay: minor restructuring
...
We need to add "clean-files" in Makfiles to clean up DT blobs, but we
often miss to do so.
Since there are no source files that end with .dtb or .dtb.S, so we
can clean-up those files from the top-level Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
It does several fixes:
1. move the displaced ld example to its reasonable place.
2. add new example for command gzip.
3. fix 2 number errors.
4. fix format of chapter 7.x, make it looks the same as other chapters.
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Update the ccflags-y example to match current usage.
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.
THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
intermediate-artifact schemes.
Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
various advantages:
- save disk space for builds
- speed-up building a little
- fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to
more flexibility for the final linking
- work better with dead code elimination we are planning
As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally
so that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".
With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now.
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Merge tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.
THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
intermediate-artifact schemes.
Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
various advantages:
- save disk space for builds
- speed-up building a little
- fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
flexibility for the final linking
- work better with dead code elimination we are planning
As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".
With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"
* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
x86/um: thin archives build fix
tile: thin archives fix linking
ia64: thin archives fix linking
sh: thin archives fix linking
kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs
The thin archives build currently puts all lib.a and built-in.o
files together and links them with --whole-archive.
This works because thin archives can recursively refer to thin
archives. However some architectures include libgcc.a, which may
not be a thin archive, or it may not be constructed with the "P"
option, in which case its contents do not get linked correctly.
So don't pull .a libs into the root built-in.o archive. These
libs should already have symbol tables and indexes built, so they
can be direct linker inputs. Move them out of the --whole-archive
option, which restore the conditional linking behaviour of lib.a
to thin archives builds.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt says the change for align options
occurred at GCC 3.0, and Documentation/process/changes.rst says the
minimal supported GCC version is 3.2, so it should be safe to hard-code
-falign* options.
Fix the only user arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu and remove cc-option-align.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Originally, generated-y and genhdr-y had different meaning, like
follows:
- generated-y: generated headers (other than asm-generic wrappers)
- header-y : headers to be exported
- genhdr-y : generated headers to be exported (generated-y + header-y)
Since commit fcc8487d47 ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), headers under UAPI directories are all exported.
So, there is no more difference between generated-y and genhdr-y.
We see two users of genhdr-y, arch/{arm,x86}/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
They generate some headers in arch/{arm,x86}/include/generated/uapi/asm
directories, which are obviously exported.
Replace them with generated-y, and abolish genhdr-y.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
This patch removes the need of subdir-y. Now all files/directories under
arch/<arch>/include/uapi/ are exported.
The only change for userland is the layout of the command 'make
headers_install_all': directories asm-<arch> are replaced by arch-<arch>/.
Those new directories contains all files/directories of the specified arch.
Note that only cris and tile have more directories than only asm:
- arch-v[10|32] for cris;
- arch for tile.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Regularly, when a new header is created in include/uapi/, the developer
forgets to add it in the corresponding Kbuild file. This error is usually
detected after the release is out.
In fact, all headers under uapi directories should be exported, thus it's
useless to have an exhaustive list.
After this patch, the following files, which were not exported, are now
exported (with make headers_install_all):
asm-arc/kvm_para.h
asm-arc/ucontext.h
asm-blackfin/shmparam.h
asm-blackfin/ucontext.h
asm-c6x/shmparam.h
asm-c6x/ucontext.h
asm-cris/kvm_para.h
asm-h8300/shmparam.h
asm-h8300/ucontext.h
asm-hexagon/shmparam.h
asm-m32r/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/shmparam.h
asm-metag/kvm_para.h
asm-metag/shmparam.h
asm-metag/ucontext.h
asm-mips/hwcap.h
asm-mips/reg.h
asm-mips/ucontext.h
asm-nios2/kvm_para.h
asm-nios2/ucontext.h
asm-openrisc/shmparam.h
asm-parisc/kvm_para.h
asm-powerpc/perf_regs.h
asm-sh/kvm_para.h
asm-sh/ucontext.h
asm-tile/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/ucontext.h
asm-x86/hwcap2.h
asm-xtensa/kvm_para.h
drm/armada_drm.h
drm/etnaviv_drm.h
drm/vgem_drm.h
linux/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.h
linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
linux/bcache.h
linux/btrfs_tree.h
linux/can/vxcan.h
linux/cifs/cifs_mount.h
linux/coresight-stm.h
linux/cryptouser.h
linux/fsmap.h
linux/genwqe/genwqe_card.h
linux/hash_info.h
linux/kcm.h
linux/kcov.h
linux/kfd_ioctl.h
linux/lightnvm.h
linux/module.h
linux/nbd-netlink.h
linux/nilfs2_api.h
linux/nilfs2_ondisk.h
linux/nsfs.h
linux/pr.h
linux/qrtr.h
linux/rpmsg.h
linux/sched/types.h
linux/sed-opal.h
linux/smc.h
linux/smc_diag.h
linux/stm.h
linux/switchtec_ioctl.h
linux/vfio_ccw.h
linux/wil6210_uapi.h
rdma/bnxt_re-abi.h
Note that I have removed from this list the files which are generated in every
exported directories (like .install or .install.cmd).
Thanks to Julien Floret <julien.floret@6wind.com> for the tip to get all
subdirs with a pure makefile command.
For the record, note that exported files for asm directories are a mix of
files listed by:
- include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm;
- arch/<arch>/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild;
- arch/<arch>/include/asm/Kbuild.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This option was added in commit c7bb349e7c ("kbuild: introduce destination-y
for exported headers") but never used in-tree.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The "imply" keyword is a weak version of "select" where the target
config symbol can still be turned off, avoiding those pitfalls that come
with the "select" keyword.
This is useful e.g. with multiple drivers that want to indicate their
ability to hook into a secondary subsystem while allowing the user to
configure that subsystem out without also having to unset these drivers.
Currently, the same effect can almost be achieved with:
config DRIVER_A
tristate
config DRIVER_B
tristate
config DRIVER_C
tristate
config DRIVER_D
tristate
[...]
config SUBSYSTEM_X
tristate
default DRIVER_A || DRIVER_B || DRIVER_C || DRIVER_D || [...]
This is unwieldy to maintain especially with a large number of drivers.
Furthermore, there is no easy way to restrict the choice for SUBSYSTEM_X
to y or n, excluding m, when some drivers are built-in. The "select"
keyword allows for excluding m, but it excludes n as well. Hence
this "imply" keyword. The above becomes:
config DRIVER_A
tristate
imply SUBSYSTEM_X
config DRIVER_B
tristate
imply SUBSYSTEM_X
[...]
config SUBSYSTEM_X
tristate
This is much cleaner, and way more flexible than "select". SUBSYSTEM_X
can still be configured out, and it can be set as a module when none of
the drivers are configured in or all of them are modular.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-2-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.
This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
working on a patch to fix this.
Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
change prototypes.
- Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
Piggin
- fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.
- preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
- CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell
- fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
ia64: move exports to definitions
sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
[sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
sparc: move exports to definitions
ppc: move exports to definitions
arm: move exports to definitions
s390: move exports to definitions
m68k: move exports to definitions
alpha: move exports to actual definitions
x86: move exports to actual definitions
...
Allow architectures to create arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink with targets
for vmlinux, modules.ko, and clean, which will be invoked after final
linking of vmlinux and modules.
powerpc will use this to check vmlinux linker relocations for sanity,
and may use it to fix up alternate instruction patch branch addresses.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Improper menuconfig usage leads to empty menu entries.
zconfdump() is able to reveal some real-life examples:
- menuconfig VFIO_NOIOMMU
- menuconfig RESET_CONTROLLER
- menuconfig SND_ARM
To avoid future occurrences of those, improve the menuconfig syntax
description.
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <rosca.eugeniu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Track generated header files which aren't already in genhdr-y, alongside
generic-y wrappers in the */include/generated/[uapi/]asm/ directories.
Currently only x86 generates extra headers in these directories, for the
purposes of enumerating system calls for different ABIs, and xen
hypercalls.
This will allow the asm-generic wrapper handling code to remove stale
wrappers when files are removed from generic-y, without also removing
these headers which are generated separately.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466808144-23209-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The type of a choice can be specified explicitely or it will be
set according to members of the choice group, see menu.c:menu_finalize().
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
In the given example, the comment becomes visible when it's dependency
is set to 'n', but the text asserts the opposite.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
