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2020-09-03kbuild: Documentation: clean up makefiles.rstRandy Dunlap
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>
2020-08-31Documentation/llvm: Improve formatting of commands, variables, and argumentsNathan Chancellor
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>
2020-08-09Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2020-08-10kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-yMasahiro Yamada
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>
2020-08-10kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS onesAlexander A. Klimov
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>
2020-08-10kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-yMasahiro Yamada
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 2464a609ded0 ("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>
2020-08-04Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2020-07-13Documentation: kbuild/kconfig-language: eliminate duplicated wordRandy Dunlap
Drop the doubled word "the". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-11-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-07kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protectorMasahiro Yamada
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>
2020-06-28docs: kbuild: fix ReST formattingDov Murik
Commit cd238effefa2 ("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>
2020-06-28gcc-plugins: fix gcc-plugins directory path in documentationMasahiro Yamada
Fix typos "plgins" -> "plugins". Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-06-06kbuild: doc: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGSMasahiro Yamada
Commit d503ac531a52 ("kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS") missed to update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-05-26kbuild: doc: remove documentation about copying Module.symvers aroundMasahiro Yamada
This is a left-over of commit 39808e451fdf ("kbuild: do not read $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers"). Kbuild no longer supports this way. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-05-17kbuild: doc: document the new syntax 'userprogs'Masahiro Yamada
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>
2020-04-23Documentation: kbuild: fix the section title formatMasahiro Yamada
Make it consistent with the other sections. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-04-09kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVMMasahiro Yamada
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/2020/3/28/494 https://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>
2020-04-09kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1Masahiro Yamada
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>
2020-04-09Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-sizeFangrui Song
The tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize. Fixes: fcf1b6a35c16 ("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>
2020-03-31Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2020-03-17modpost: move the namespace field in Module.symvers lastJessica Yu
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 bd5cbcedf44), 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: cb9b55d21fe0 ("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>
2020-03-13kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependencyMasahiro Yamada
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>
2020-03-13kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become mMasahiro Yamada
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 237e3ad0f195 ("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>
2020-03-13kbuild: doc: fix references to other documentsMasahiro Yamada
All the files in Documentation/kbuild/ were converted to reST. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-03-10docs: move gcc-plugins to the kbuild manualJonathan Corbet
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>
2020-03-03Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVMNick Desaulniers
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>
2020-02-27kbuild: get rid of trailing slash from subdir- exampleMasahiro Yamada
obj-* needs a trailing slash for a directory, but subdir-* does not. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-02-27kbuild: remove wrong documentation about mandatory-yMasahiro Yamada
This sentence does not make sense in the section about mandatory-y. This seems to be a copy-paste mistake of commit fcc8487d477a ("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>
2020-02-04kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-yMasahiro Yamada
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>
2020-02-04kbuild: fix the document to use extra-y for vmlinux.ldsMasahiro Yamada
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>
2020-02-01Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 $config kconfig: squash prop_alloc() into menu_add_prop() kconfig: remove sym from struct property kconfig: remove 'prompt' argument from menu_add_prop() kconfig: move prompt handling to menu_add_prompt() from menu_add_prop() kconfig: remove 'prompt' symbol kconfig: drop T_WORD from the RHS of 'prompt' symbol kconfig: use parent->dep as the parentdep of 'menu' kconfig: remove the rootmenu check in menu_add_prop()
2020-01-22kconfig: fix documentation typosBjorn Helgaas
Fix a couple typos in kconfig-language documentation. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-01-07kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.confMasahiro Yamada
Commit bc081dd6e9f6 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all builtin modules. Basically, it works like this: - Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter. - scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into directories to collect the information of builtin modules. I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing the source tree twice. I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate, some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y. Some examples are: arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile: obj-$(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>
2019-12-22kbuild: clarify the difference between obj-y and obj-m w.r.t. descendingMasahiro Yamada
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>
2019-12-18kconfig: remove ---help--- from documentationMasahiro Yamada
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), scripts/checkpatch.pl warns the use of ---help---. Kconfig still supports ---help---, but new code should avoid using it. Let's stop advertising it in documentation. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2019-11-15kbuild: remove header compile testMasahiro Yamada
There are both positive and negative options about this feature. At first, I thought it was a good idea, but actually Linus stated a negative opinion (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/29/227). I admit it is ugly and annoying. The baseline I'd like to keep is the compile-test of uapi headers. (Otherwise, kernel developers have no way to ensure the correctness of the exported headers.) I will maintain a small build rule in usr/include/Makefile. Remove the other header test functionality. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-11-11kbuild: do not read $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symversMasahiro Yamada
Since commit 040fcc819a2e ("kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules"), the external module build reads Module.symvers in the directory of the module itself, then dumps symbols back into it. It accumulates stale symbols in the file when you build an external module incrementally. The idea behind it was, as the commit log explained, you can copy Modules.symvers from one module to another when you need to pass symbol information between two modules. However, the manual copy of the file sounds questionable to me, and containing stale symbols is a downside. Some time later, commit 0d96fb20b7ed ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced a saner approach. So, this commit removes the former one. Going forward, the external module build dumps symbols into Module.symvers to be carried via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, but never reads it automatically. With the -I option removed, there is no one to set the external_module flag unless KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is passed. Now the -i option does it instead. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-10-11Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.4-rc3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux Pull module fixes from Jessica Yu: "Code cleanups and kbuild/namespace related fixups from Masahiro. Most importantly, it fixes a namespace-related modpost issue for external module builds - Fix broken external module builds due to a modpost bug in read_dump(), where the namespace was not being strdup'd and sym->namespace would be set to bogus data. - Various namespace-related kbuild fixes and cleanups thanks to Masahiro Yamada" * tag 'modules-for-v5.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux: doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/ nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds module: swap the order of symbol.namespace scripts: add_namespace: Fix coccicheck failed
2019-10-08doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/Masahiro Yamada
We discussed a better location for this file, and agreed that core-api/ is a good fit. Rename it to symbol-namespaces.rst for disambiguation, and also add it to index.rst and MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-10-05kheaders: make headers archive reproducibleDmitry Goldin
In commit 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier") a new mechanism was introduced, for kernels >=5.2, which embeds the kernel headers in the kernel image or a module and exposes them in procfs for use by userland tools. The archive containing the header files has nondeterminism caused by header files metadata. This patch normalizes the metadata and utilizes KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP if provided and otherwise falls back to the default behaviour. In commit f7b101d33046 ("kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs") it was modified to use sysfs and the script for generation of the archive was renamed to what is being patched. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Goldin <dgoldin+lkml@protonmail.ch> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-10-05kbuild: two minor updates for Documentation/kbuild/modules.rstMasahiro Yamada
Capitalize the first word in the sentence. Use obj-m instead of obj-y. obj-y still works, but we have no built-in objects in external module builds. So, obj-m is better IMHO. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-10-01kbuild: correct formatting of header in kbuild module docsAlex Gaynor
Minor formatting fixup. Fixes: cd238effefa2 ("docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst") Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-10-01kbuild: remove ar-option and KBUILD_ARFLAGSMasahiro Yamada
Commit 40df759e2b9e ("kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19") introduced ar-option and KBUILD_ARFLAGS to deal with old binutils. According to Documentation/process/changes.rst, the current minimal supported version of binutils is 2.21 so you can assume the 'D' option is always supported. Not only GNU ar but also llvm-ar supports it. With the 'D' option hard-coded, there is no more user of ar-option or KBUILD_ARFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
2019-09-22Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu: "The main bulk of this pull request introduces a new exported symbol namespaces feature. The number of exported symbols is increasingly growing with each release (we're at about 31k exports as of 5.3-rc7) and we currently have no way of visualizing how these symbols are "clustered" or making sense of this huge export surface. Namespacing exported symbols allows kernel developers to more explicitly partition and categorize exported symbols, as well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. For starters, we have introduced the USB_STORAGE namespace to demonstrate the API's usage. I have briefly summarized the feature and its main motivations in the tag below. Summary: - Introduce exported symbol namespaces. This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module authors are now required to import the namespaces they need. Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing kernel developers to better manage the export surface, allow subsystem maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some exported symbols should only be limited to certain users (think: inter-module or inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot the misuse of exported symbols during patch review. Two new macros are introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is thoroughly documented in Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst. - Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there" * tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux: module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header module: remove unneeded casts in cmp_name() module: move CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS to the sub-menu of MODULES module: remove redundant 'depends on MODULES' module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies. modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS modpost: add support for symbol namespaces module: add support for symbol namespaces. export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag
2019-09-20Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - add modpost warn exported symbols marked as 'static' because 'static' and EXPORT_SYMBOL is an odd combination - break the build early if gold linker is used - optimize the Bison rule to produce .c and .h files by a single pattern rule - handle PREEMPT_RT in the module vermagic and UTS_VERSION - warn CONFIG options leaked to the user-space except existing ones - make single targets work properly - rebuild modules when module linker scripts are updated - split the module final link stage into scripts/Makefile.modfinal - fix the missed error code in merge_config.sh - improve the error message displayed on the attempt of the O= build in unclean source tree - remove 'clean-dirs' syntax - disable -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning for Clang - add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE_O3 for ARC - remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS variables - add $(BASH) to run bash scripts - change *CFLAGS_<basetarget>.o to take the relative path to $(obj) instead of the basename - stop suppressing Clang's -Wunused-function warnings when W=1 - fix linux/export.h to avoid genksyms calculating CRC of trimmed exported symbols - misc cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (63 commits) genksyms: convert to SPDX License Identifier for lex.l and parse.y modpost: use __section in the output to *.mod.c modpost: use MODULE_INFO() for __module_depends export.h, genksyms: do not make genksyms calculate CRC of trimmed symbols export.h: remove defined(__KERNEL__), which is no longer needed kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.extrawarn merge_config.sh: ignore unwanted grep errors kbuild: change *FLAGS_<basetarget>.o to take the path relative to $(obj) modpost: add NOFAIL to strndup modpost: add guid_t type definition kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension kbuild: remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS kbuild,arc: add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC kbuild: Do not enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang for now kbuild: clean up subdir-ymn calculation in Makefile.clean kbuild: remove unneeded '+' marker from cmd_clean kbuild: remove clean-dirs syntax kbuild: check clean srctree even earlier ...
2019-09-15Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible buildsBen Hutchings
In the Distribution Kernels track at Linux Plumbers Conference there was some discussion around the difficulty of making kernel builds reproducible. This is a solved problem, but the solutions don't appear to be documented in one place. This document lists the issues I know about and the settings needed to ensure reproducibility. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-10docs: Add documentation for Symbol NamespacesMatthias Maennich
Describe using Symbol Namespaces from a perspective of a user. I.e. module authors or subsystem maintainers. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-09-10modpost: add support for symbol namespacesMatthias Maennich
Add support for symbols that are exported into namespaces. For that, extract any namespace suffix from the symbol name. In addition, emit a warning whenever a module refers to an exported symbol without explicitly importing the namespace that it is defined in. This patch consistently adds the namespace suffix to symbol names exported into Module.symvers. Example warning emitted by modpost in case of the above violation: WARNING: module ums-usbat uses symbol usb_stor_resume from namespace USB_STORAGE, but does not import it. Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-09-06kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNMasahiro Yamada
KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS started as a switch to add extra warning options for GCC, but now it is a historical misnomer since we use it also for Clang, DTC, and even kernel-doc. Rename it to more sensible, shorter KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN. For the backward compatibility, KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS is still supported (but not advertised in the documentation). I also fixed up 'make help', and updated the documentation. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
2019-09-04kbuild: remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGSMasahiro Yamada
These flags were added by commit 61754c18752f ("kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags") to allow ARC to override -O2. We did not see any other usage after all. Now that ARC switched to CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3, there is no more user of these variables. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>