- Support only Qt5 for qconf
- Validate signal/slot connection at compile time of qconf
- Sanitize header includes
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support only Qt5 for qconf
- Validate signal/slot connection at compile time of qconf
- Sanitize header includes
* tag 'kconfig-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: doc: fix $(fileno) to $(filename)
kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if()
kconfig: clean up header inclusion
kconfig: qconf: show Qt version in the About dialog
kconfig: make lkc.h self-sufficient #include-wise
kconfig: qconf: convert to Qt5 new signal/slot connection syntax
kconfig: qconf: use a variable to pass packages to pkg-config
kconfig: qconf: drop Qt4 support
Document best practises for using architecture and platform dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
There is no explanation about subdir-y.
Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
The difference between extra-y and always-y is obscure.
Basically, Kbuild builds targets listed in extra-y and always-y in
visited Makefiles without relying on any dependency.
The difference is that extra-y is used to list the targets needed for
vmlinux whereas always-y is used to list the targets that must be always
built irrespective of final targets.
Kbuild skips extra-y when it is building only modules (i.e.
'make modules'). This is the long-standing behavior since extra-y was
introduced in 2003, and it is explained in that commit log [1].
For clarification, this is the extra-y vs always-y table:
extra-y always-y
'make' y y
'make vmlinux' y y
'make modules' n y
Kbuild skips extra-y also when building external modules since obviously
it never builds vmlinux.
Unfortunately, extra-y is wrongly used in many places of upstream code,
and even in external modules.
Using extra-y in external module Makefiles is wrong. What you should
use is probably always-y or 'targets'.
The current documentation for extra-y is misleading. I rewrote it, and
moved it to the section 3.7.
always-y is not documented anywhere. I added.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=f94e5fd7e5d09a56a60670a9bb211a791654bba8
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
The if_changed macro is currently explained in the section
"Commands useful for building a boot image", but the use of
if_changed is not limited to the boot image.
It is often used together with custom rules. Let's split it as a
separate section, and insert it after the "Custom Rules" section.
I slightly reworded the explanation, re-numbered to fill the <deleted>
section, and also fixed the broken indentation of the Note: part.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The two sections "3.10 Special Rules" and "7.8 Custom kbuild commands"
are related because you must understand both of them when you write
custom rules.
Actually I do not understand the policy about what to go into
"3 The kbuild files" and what into "7 Architecture Makefile".
This commit reworks the custom rule explanation as follows:
- Merged "7.8 Custom kbuild commands" into "3.10 Special Rules".
- Reword "Special Rules" to "Custom Rules" for consistency.
- Update the example for kecho because the blackfin Makefile
does not exist any more.
- Replace the example for cmd_<command> with a simpler one.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fix stale information:
- Fix the section number in the reference from 6.4 to 7.4.
- Remove init-y and net-y. They were removed by commit 23febe375d
("kbuild: merge init-y into core-y") and commit 95fb6317b3
("kbuild: merge net-y and virt-y into drivers-y"), respectively.
- Update the example because arch/sparc64/Makefile does not exit.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Precisely speaking, the arch directory is specified by $(SRCARCH),
not $(ARCH).
In old days, $(ARCH) actually matched to the arch directory because
32-bit and 64-bit were supported as separate architectures.
Most architectures (except arm/arm64) were unified like follows:
arch/i386, arch/x86_64 -> arch/x86
arch/sh, arch/sh64 -> arch/sh
arch/sparc, arch/sparc64 -> arch/sparc
To not break the user interface, commit 6752ed90da ("Kbuild: allow
arch/xxx to use a different source path") introduced SRCARCH to point
to the arch directory, still allowing to pass in the former ARCH=i386
or ARCH=x86_64.
Update the documents for preciseness, and add the explanation of SRCARCH.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
This line was written in 2003. Now we have much more Makefiles.
The number of Makefiles is not important. The point is we have a
Makefile in (almost) every directory.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The "size" tool has been solely used by s390 to enforce .bss section usage
restrictions in early startup code. Since commit 980d5f9ab3 ("s390/boot:
enable .bss section for compressed kernel") and commit 2e83e0eb85
("s390: clean .bss before running uncompressed kernel") these restrictions
have been lifted for the decompressor and uncompressed kernel and the
size tool is now unused.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
During an investigation to fix up the execute bits of scripts in the
kernel repository, Andrew Morton and Kees Cook pointed out that the
execute bit should not matter, and that build scripts cannot rely on that.
Kees could not point to any documentation, though.
Masahiro Yamada explained the convention of setting execute bits to make
it easier for manual script invocation.
Provide some basic documentation how the build shall invoke scripts, such
that the execute bits do not matter, and acknowledge that execute bits are
useful nonetheless.
This serves as reference for further clean-up patches in the future.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ujjwal Kumar <ujjwalkumar0501@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200830174409.c24c3f67addcce0cea9a9d4c@linux-foundation.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202008271102.FEB906C88@keescook/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CAK7LNAQdrvMkDA6ApDJCGr+5db8SiPo=G+p8EiOvnnGvEN80gA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001075723.24246-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
no conflicts at all. This pull includes:
- A reworked and expanded user-mode Linux document
- Some simplifications and improvements for submitting-patches.rst
- An emergency fix for (some) problems with Sphinx 3.x
- Some welcome automarkup improvements to automatically generate
cross-references to struct definitions and other documents
- The usual collection of translation updates, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"As hoped, things calmed down for docs this cycle; fewer changes and
almost no conflicts at all. This includes:
- A reworked and expanded user-mode Linux document
- Some simplifications and improvements for submitting-patches.rst
- An emergency fix for (some) problems with Sphinx 3.x
- Some welcome automarkup improvements to automatically generate
cross-references to struct definitions and other documents
- The usual collection of translation updates, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (81 commits)
gpiolib: Update indentation in driver.rst for code excerpts
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: Fix typo occured
Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging
docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support
Documentation: kvm: fix a typo
Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
doc: zh_CN: index files in arm64 subdirectory
mailmap: add entry for <mstarovoitov@marvell.com>
doc: seq_file: clarify role of *pos in ->next()
docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.rst: use the new SPDX tag
Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters
Fix references to nommu-mmap.rst
docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove sstfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove framebuffer scrollback boot option
docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one
Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev"
Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"
...
clang --target=<triple> is how we can specify a particular toolchain
triple to be use, fix the two occurences in the documentation.
Fixes: fcf1b6a35c ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
This is a general cleanup of kbuild/makefiles.rst:
* Use "Chapter" for major heading references and use "section" for
the next-level heading references, for consistency.
* Section 3.8 was deleted long ago.
* Drop the ending ':' in section names in the contents list.
* Correct some section numbering references.
* Correct verb agreement typo.
* Fix run-on sentence punctuation.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.
We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time. Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions. LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
While reviewing a separate patch, I noticed that the formatting of the
commands, variables, and arguments was not in a monospaced font like the
rest of the Kbuild documentation (see kbuild/kconfig.rst for an
example). This is due to a lack of "::" before indented command blocks
and single backticks instead of double backticks for inline formatting.
Add those so that the document looks nicer in an HTML format, while not
ruining the look in plain text.
As a result of this, we can remove the escaped backslashes in the last
code block and move them to single backslashes.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
- run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler
- remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags
- fix tar-pkg to install dtbs
- introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax
- allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/
- introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax
- various Makefile cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler
- remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags
- fix tar-pkg to install dtbs
- introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax
- allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/
- introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax
- various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
kbuild: always create directories of targets
powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.
There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).
The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.
This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.
The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.
userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file>.o filters out flags when compiling a particular
object, but there is no convenient way to do that for every object in
a directory.
Add ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y to make it easily.
Use ccflags-remove-y to clean up some Makefiles.
The add/remove order works as follows:
[1] KBUILD_CFLAGS specifies compiler flags used globally
[2] ccflags-y adds compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile
[3] ccflags-remove-y removes compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile (New feature)
[4] CFLAGS_<file> adds compiler flags per file.
[5] CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file> removes compiler flags per file.
Having [3] before [4] allows us to remove flags from most (but not all)
objects in the current Makefile.
For example, kernel/trace/Makefile removes $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
from all objects in the directory, then adds it back to
trace_selftest_dynamic.o and CFLAGS_trace_kprobe_selftest.o
The same applies to lib/livepatch/Makefile.
Please note ccflags-remove-y has no effect to the sub-directories.
In contrast, the previous notation got rid of compiler flags also from
all the sub-directories.
The following are not affected because they have no sub-directories:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/
arch/powerpc/xmon/
arch/sh/
kernel/trace/
However, lib/ has several sub-directories.
To keep the behavior, I added ccflags-remove-y to all Makefiles
in subdirectories of lib/, except the following:
lib/vdso/Makefile - Kbuild does not descend into this Makefile
lib/raid/test/Makefile - This is not used for the kernel build
I think commit 2464a609de ("ftrace: do not trace library functions")
excluded too much. In the next commit, I will remove ccflags-remove-y
from the sub-directories of lib/.
Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> (KUnit)
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
...
Some Makefiles already pass -fno-stack-protector unconditionally.
For example, arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile, arch/x86/xen/Makefile.
No problem report so far about hard-coding this option. So, we can
assume all supported compilers know -fno-stack-protector.
GCC 4.8 and Clang support this option (https://godbolt.org/z/_HDGzN)
Get rid of cc-option from -fno-stack-protector.
Remove CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, which is always 'y'.
Note:
arch/mips/vdso/Makefile adds -fno-stack-protector twice, first
unconditionally, and second conditionally. I removed the second one.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Commit cd238effef ("docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to
*.rst") missed a ReST header and a verbatim file content area.
Signed-off-by: Dov Murik <dovmurik@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
This is a left-over of commit 39808e451f ("kbuild: do not read
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers").
Kbuild no longer supports this way.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Kbuild now supports the syntax 'userprogs' to compile userspace
programs for the same architecture as the kernel.
Insert the section '5 Userspace Program support' to explain it.
I copy-pasted '4 Host Program support' and fixed it up.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst implies, building the kernel with a
full set of LLVM tools gets very verbose and unwieldy.
Provide a single switch LLVM=1 to use Clang and LLVM tools instead
of GCC and Binutils. You can pass it from the command line or as an
environment variable.
Please note LLVM=1 does not turn on the integrated assembler. You need
to pass LLVM_IAS=1 to use it. When the upstream kernel is ready for the
integrated assembler, I think we can make it default.
We discussed what we need, and we agreed to go with a simple boolean
flag that switches both target and host tools:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/28/494https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/43
Some items discussed, but not adopted:
- LLVM_DIR
When multiple versions of LLVM are installed, I just thought supporting
LLVM_DIR=/path/to/my/llvm/bin/ might be useful.
CC = $(LLVM_DIR)clang
LD = $(LLVM_DIR)ld.lld
...
However, we can handle this by modifying PATH. So, we decided to not do
this.
- LLVM_SUFFIX
Some distributions (e.g. Debian) package specific versions of LLVM with
naming conventions that use the version as a suffix.
CC = clang$(LLVM_SUFFIX)
LD = ld.lld(LLVM_SUFFIX)
...
will allow a user to pass LLVM_SUFFIX=-11 to use clang-11 etc.,
but the suffixed versions in /usr/bin/ are symlinks to binaries in
/usr/lib/llvm-#/bin/, so this can also be handled by PATH.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> # build
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
The 'AS' variable is unused for building the kernel. Only the remaining
usage is to turn on the integrated assembler. A boolean flag is a better
fit for this purpose.
AS=clang was added for experts. So, I replaced it with LLVM_IAS=1,
breaking the backward compatibility.
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
The tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize.
Fixes: fcf1b6a35c ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM")
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
[Build system]
- add CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST, which will be useful to define
a fixed set of export symbols for Generic Kernel Image (GKI)
- allow to run 'make dt_binding_check' without .config
- use full schema for checking DT examples in *.yaml files
- make modpost fail for missing MODULE_IMPORT_NS(), which makes more
sense because we know the produced modules are never loadable
- Remove unused 'AS' variable
[Kconfig]
- sanitize DEFCONFIG_LIST, and remove ARCH_DEFCONFIG from Kconfig files
- relax the 'imply' behavior so that symbols implied by y can become m
- make 'imply' obey 'depends on' in order to make 'imply' really weak
[Misc]
- add documentation on building the kernel with Clang/LLVM
- revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc to use optimized strlen()
- fix warning from deb-pkg builds when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n
- various script and Makefile cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Build system:
- add CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST, which will be useful to define a
fixed set of export symbols for Generic Kernel Image (GKI)
- allow to run 'make dt_binding_check' without .config
- use full schema for checking DT examples in *.yaml files
- make modpost fail for missing MODULE_IMPORT_NS(), which makes more
sense because we know the produced modules are never loadable
- Remove unused 'AS' variable
Kconfig:
- sanitize DEFCONFIG_LIST, and remove ARCH_DEFCONFIG from Kconfig
files
- relax the 'imply' behavior so that symbols implied by 'y' can
become 'm'
- make 'imply' obey 'depends on' in order to make 'imply' really weak
Misc:
- add documentation on building the kernel with Clang/LLVM
- revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc to use optimized strlen()
- fix warning from deb-pkg builds when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n
- various script and Makefile cleanups"
* tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
Makefile: Update kselftest help information
kbuild: deb-pkg: fix warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset
kbuild: add outputmakefile to no-dot-config-targets
kbuild: remove AS variable
net: wan: wanxl: refactor the firmware rebuild rule
net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware
net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware
kbuild: add comment about grouped target
kbuild: add -Wall to KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS
kconfig: remove unused variable in qconf.cc
sparc: revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc
kbuild: refactor Makefile.dtbinst more
kbuild: compute the dtbs_install destination more simply
Makefile: disallow data races on gcc-10 as well
kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency
kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m
net: drop_monitor: use IS_REACHABLE() to guard net_dm_hw_report()
modpost: return error if module is missing ns imports and MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n
modpost: rework and consolidate logging interface
kbuild: allow to run dt_binding_check without kernel configuration
...
- Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...
- Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api manual.
- Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.
- Typo fixes, warning fixes, ...
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Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been a busy cycle for documentation work.
Highlights include:
- Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...
- Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api
manual.
- Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.
- Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..."
* tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits)
Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion
docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs
doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory
docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout
docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx
docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst
docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files
Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref
docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning
docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning
docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst
docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings
docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format
Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual
Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual
...
In order to preserve backwards compatability with kmod tools, we have to
move the namespace field in Module.symvers last, as the depmod -e -E
option looks at the first three fields in Module.symvers to check symbol
versions (and it's expected they stay in the original order of crc,
symbol, module).
In addition, update an ancient comment above read_dump() in modpost that
suggested that the export type field in Module.symvers was optional. I
suspect that there were historical reasons behind that comment that are
no longer accurate. We have been unconditionally printing the export
type since 2.6.18 (commit bd5cbcedf4), which is over a decade ago now.
Fix up read_dump() to treat each field as non-optional. I suspect the
original read_dump() code treated the export field as optional in order
to support pre <= 2.6.18 Module.symvers (which did not have the export
type field). Note that although symbol namespaces are optional, the
field will not be omitted from Module.symvers if a symbol does not have
a namespace. In this case, the field will simply be empty and the next
delimiter or end of line will follow.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cb9b55d21f ("modpost: add support for symbol namespaces")
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The 'imply' statement may create unmet direct dependency when the
implied symbol depends on m.
[Test Code]
config FOO
tristate "foo"
imply BAZ
config BAZ
tristate "baz"
depends on BAR
config BAR
def_tristate m
config MODULES
def_bool y
option modules
If you set FOO=y, BAZ is also promoted to y, which results in the
following .config file:
CONFIG_FOO=y
CONFIG_BAZ=y
CONFIG_BAR=m
CONFIG_MODULES=y
This does not meet the dependency 'BAZ depends on BAR'.
Unlike 'select', what is worse, Kconfig never shows the
'WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for ...' for this case.
Because 'imply' is considered to be weaker than 'depends on', Kconfig
should take the direct dependency into account.
For clarification, describe this case in kconfig-language.rst too.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
The 'imply' keyword restricts a symbol to y or n, excluding m
when it is implied by y. This is the original behavior since
commit 237e3ad0f1 ("Kconfig: Introduce the "imply" keyword").
However, the author of this feature, Nicolas Pitre, stated that
the 'imply' keyword should not impose any restrictions.
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/19/714)
I agree, and want to get rid of this tricky behavior.
Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Information about GCC plugins is relevant to kernel building, so move this
document to the kbuild manual.
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Added to kbuild documentation. Provides more official info on building
kernels with Clang and LLVM than our wiki.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
This sentence does not make sense in the section about mandatory-y.
This seems to be a copy-paste mistake of commit fcc8487d47 ("uapi:
export all headers under uapi directories").
The correct description would be "The convention is to list one
mandatory-y per line ...".
I just removed it instead of fixing it. If such information is needed,
it could be commented in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.
It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.
This commit renames like follows:
always -> always-y
hostprogs-y -> hostprogs
So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:
always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ...
...
hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)
I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.
The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The difference between "always" and "extra-y" is that the targets
listed in $(always) are always built, whereas the ones in $(extra-y)
are built only when KBUILD_BUILTIN is set.
So, "make modules" does not build the targets in $(extra-y).
vmlinux.lds is only needed for linking vmlinux. So, adding it to extra-y
is more correct. In fact, arch/x86/kernel/Makefile does this.
Fix the example code.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
- add 'yes2modconfig' and 'mod2yesconfig' targets
- sanitize help text
- various code cleanups
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- add 'yes2modconfig' and 'mod2yesconfig' targets (useful mainly for
turning syzbot configs into more modular ones as a step to minimizing
the result)
- sanitize help text
- various code cleanups
* tag 'kconfig-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: fix documentation typos
kconfig: fix an "implicit declaration of function" warning
kconfig: fix nesting of symbol help text
kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text
kconfig: list all definitions of a symbol in help text
kconfig: Add yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig targets.
kconfig: use $(PERL) in Makefile
kconfig: fix too deep indentation in Makefile
kconfig: localmodconfig: fix indentation for closing brace
kconfig: localmodconfig: remove unused $config
kconfig: squash prop_alloc() into menu_add_prop()
kconfig: remove sym from struct property
kconfig: remove 'prompt' argument from menu_add_prop()
kconfig: move prompt handling to menu_add_prompt() from menu_add_prop()
kconfig: remove 'prompt' symbol
kconfig: drop T_WORD from the RHS of 'prompt' symbol
kconfig: use parent->dep as the parentdep of 'menu'
kconfig: remove the rootmenu check in menu_add_prop()
Commit bc081dd6e9 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added
infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all
builtin modules.
Basically, it works like this:
- Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of
tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter.
- scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into
directories to collect the information of builtin modules.
I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing
the source tree twice.
I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot
avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate,
some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y.
Some examples are:
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y) += nvram.o
net/ipv6/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += inet6_hashtables.o
net/netlabel/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += netlabel_calipso.o
Nobody has complained about (or noticed) it, so it is probably fine to
have false positives in modules.builtin.
This commit simplifies the implementation. Let's exploit the fact
that every module has MODULE_LICENSE(). (modpost shows a warning if
MODULE_LICENSE is missing. If so, 0-day bot would already have blocked
such a module.)
I added MODULE_FILE to <linux/module.h>. When the code is being compiled
as builtin, it will be filled with the file path of the module, and
collected into modules.builtin.info. Then, scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
extracts the list of builtin modules out of it.
This new approach fixes the false-positives above, but adds another
type of false-positives; non-modular code may have MODULE_LICENSE()
by mistake. This is not a big deal, it is just the code is always
orphan. We can clean it up if we like. You can see cleanup examples by:
$ git log --grep='make.* explicitly non-modular'
To sum up, this commits deletes lots of code, but still produces almost
equivalent results. Please note it does not increase the vmlinux size at
all. As you can see in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, the .modinfo
section is discarded in the link stage.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Kbuild descends into a directory by either 'y' or 'm', but there is an
important difference.
Kbuild combines the built-in objects into built-in.a in each directory.
The built-in.a in the directory visited by obj-y is merged into the
built-in.a in the parent directory. This merge happens recursively
when Kbuild is ascending back towards the top directory, then built-in
objects are linked into vmlinux eventually. This works properly only
when the Makefile specifying obj-y is reachable by the chain of obj-y.
On the other hand, Kbuild does not take built-in.a from the directory
visited by obj-m. This it, all the objects in that directory are
supposed to be modular. If Kbuild descends into a directory by obj-m,
but the Makefile in the sub-directory specifies obj-y, those objects
are just left orphan.
The current statement "Kbuild only uses this information to decide that
it needs to visit the directory" is misleading. Clarify the difference.
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
