During review (see Link), Jani Nikula suggested to use proper subheadings
instead of using italics to indicate the different new top-level
categories in the checklist. Further the top heading should follow the
common scheme.
Use subheadings. Adjust to common heading adornment.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/87o7c3mlwb.fsf@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240229030743.9125-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
While going through the submit checklist, the list order seemed rather
random, probably just by historical coincidences of always adding yet the
next point someone thought of at the end of the list.
Structure and order them by the category of such activity,
reviewing, documenting, checking with tools, building and testing.
As the diff of the reordering is large:
Review code now includes previous points 1, 5 and 22.
Review Kconfig includes previous 6, 7 and 8.
Documenting includes previous 11, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 23.
Checking with tools includes previous 5, 9 and 10.
Building includes previous 2, 3, 20 and 24.
Testing includes previous 12, 13, 14, 19 and 21.
Previous point 4 (compile for ppc64) was merged into point 3 (build for
many architectures), as it was just a further note to cross-compiling.
Previous point 5 was split into one in review and one in checking
to have every previous point in the right category.
Point 11 was shortened, as building documentation is mentioned already
in Build your code, 1d.
A note that was presented visually much too aggressive in the HTML view was
turned into a simple "Note that..." sentence in the enumeration.
The recommendation to test with the -mm patchset (previous 21, now
testing, point 5) was updated to the current state of affairs to test with
a recent tag of linux-next.
Note that the previous first point still remains the first list even after
reordering. Randy confirmed that it was important to Stephen Rothwell to
keep 'include what you use' to be the first in the list.
While at it, replace the reference to the obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB with
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240229030743.9125-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
You should use KCFLAGS to pass additional compiler flags from the
command line. Using EXTRA_CFLAGS is wrong.
EXTRA_CFLAGS is supposed to specify flags applied only to the current
Makefile (and now deprecated in favor of ccflags-y).
It is still used in arch/mips/kvm/Makefile (and possibly in external
modules too). Passing EXTRA_CFLAGS from the command line overwrites
it and breaks the build.
I also fixed drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/Makefile because commit 816175dd1f
("drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc: Makefile, only -Werror when no -W* in
EXTRA_CFLAGS") was based on the same misunderstanding.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210221152524.197693-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the module
linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the
module linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
kbuild: Use uname for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST detection
kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions
kbuild: remove leftover comment for filechk utility
treewide: remove DISABLE_LTO
kbuild: deb-pkg: clean up package name variables
kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n
kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type
scripts: remove namespace.pl
builddeb: Add support for all required debian/rules targets
builddeb: Enable rootless builds
builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages
kbuild: split the build log of kallsyms
kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style
scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-check
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-strict-overflow
kbuild: move CFLAGS_{KASAN,UBSAN,KCSAN} exports to relevant Makefiles
kbuild: remove redundant CONFIG_KASAN check from scripts/Makefile.kasan
kbuild: do not create built-in objects for external module builds
...
namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.
The script relies on object data, and only finds unused symbols for the
configuration used to generate that object data. This results in a lot
of false positive warnings such as symbols only used by a single
architecture, or symbols which are used externally only under certain
configurations.
Running namespace.pl using allyesconfig, allmodconfig, and
x86_64_defconfig yields the following results:
* allmodconfig
* 11122 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* allyesconfig
* 10997 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* x86_64_defconfig
* 5757 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 528 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 154 symbols it can't resolve
The script also has no way to easily limit the scope of the checks to
a given subset of the kernel, such as only checking for symbols defined
within a module or subsystem.
Discussion on public mailing lists seems to indicate that many view the
tool output as suspect or not very useful (see discussions at [1] and
[2] for further context).
As described by Masahiro Yamada at [2], namespace.pl provides 3 types of
checks: listing multiply defined symbols, resolving external symbols,
and warnings about symbols with no reference.
The first category of issues is easily caught by the linker as any set
of multiply defined symbols should fail to link. The second category of
issues is also caught by linking, as undefined symbols would cause
issues. Even with modules, these types of issues where a module relies
on an external symbol are caught by modpost.
The remaining category of issues reported is the list of symbols with no
external reference, and is the primary motivation of this script.
However, it ought to be clear from the above examples that the output is
difficult to sort through. Even allyesconfig has ~10000 entries.
The current submit-checklist indicates that patches ought to go through
namespacecheck and fix any new issues arising. But that itself presents
problems. As described at [1], many cases of reports are due to
configuration where a function is used externally by some configuration
settings. Prominent maintainers appear to dislike changes modify code
such that symbols become static based on CONFIG_* flags ([3], and [4])
One possible solution is to adjust the advice and indicate that we only
care about the output of namespacecheck on allyesconfig or allmodconfig
builds...
However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are
actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the
MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols
that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply
remove it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add to Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst that patch
submitters should run "make htmldocs" and verify that any
Documentation/ changes (patches) are clean (no new warnings/errors).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf5bbdf5-03ff-0606-a6d4-ca196d90aee9@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Several references got broken due to txt to ReST conversion.
Several of them can be automatically fixed with:
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> # hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # memory-barrier.txt
Acked-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> # translations/zh_CN
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> # translations/it_IT
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> # kvm/arm64
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f919ddb83a33b5f2a63b6b5f0575737bb2b36aa.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The conversion itself is simple: add a markup for the
title of this file and add markups for both tables.
Yet, the big table here with IOCTL numbers is badly formatted:
on several lines, the "Include File" column has some values that
are bigger than the reserved space there.
Also, on several places, a comment was misplaced at the "Include
File" space.
So, most of the work here is to actually ensure that each field
will be properly fixed.
Also worth to mention that some URLs have the asterisk character
on it. Well, Sphinx has an issue with asterisks in the middle
of an string. As this is URL, use the alternate format: %2A.
As a side effect of this patch, it is now a lot easier to see that
some reserved ioctl numbers are missing the include files
where it is supposed to be used.
PS.: While this is part of a subdir, I opted to convert this
single file alone, as this file has a potential of conflicts,
as most subsystem maintainers touch it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents
there are written at different times: some use markdown,
some use their own peculiar logic to split sections.
Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much
the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently support for 64-bit sector_t and blkcnt_t is optional on 32-bit
architectures. These types are required to support block device and/or
file sizes larger than 2 TiB, and have generally defaulted to on for
a long time. Enabling the option only increases the i386 tinyconfig
size by 145 bytes, and many data structures already always use
64-bit values for their in-core and on-disk data structures anyway,
so there should not be a large change in dynamic memory usage either.
Dropping this option removes a somewhat weird non-default config that
has cause various bugs or compiler warnings when actually used.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
add missing indent whitespace to list item, fixes the warning:
- process/submit-checklist.rst:41: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank
line; unexpected unindent.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the
preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
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>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.
As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Lukas Bulwahn