1. 20 Apr, 2023 1 commit
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  5. 22 Jan, 2023 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      .gitignore: update the command to check tracked files being ignored · b8a9ddca
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      Recent git versions do not accept the noted command.
      
        $ git ls-files -i --exclude-standard
        fatal: ls-files -i must be used with either -o or -c
      
      The -c was implied before, but we need to make it explicit since
      git commit b338e9f66873 ("ls-files: error out on -i unless -o or -c
      are specified").
      
      Also, replace --exclude-standard with --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
      so that everyone will get consistent results.
      
      git-ls-files(1) says:
      
        --exclude-standard
            Add the standard Git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore in
            each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
      
      We cannot predict what is locally added to .git/info/exclude or the
      user's global exclusion file.
      
      We can only manage .gitignore files committed to the repository.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
      b8a9ddca
  6. 30 Dec, 2022 1 commit
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  9. 07 May, 2022 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms · 9413e764
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      The *.mod files have two lines; the first line lists the member objects
      of the module, and the second line, if CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y, lists
      the undefined symbols.
      
      Currently, we generate *.mod after constructing composite modules,
      otherwise, we cannot compute the second line. No prerequisite is
      required to print the first line.
      
      They are orthogonal. Splitting them into separate commands will ease
      further cleanups.
      
      This commit splits the list of undefined symbols out to *.usyms files.
      
      Previously, the list of undefined symbols ended up with a very long
      line, but now it has one symbol per line.
      
      Use sed like we did before commit 7d32358b
      
       ("kbuild: avoid split
      lines in .mod files").
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
      9413e764
  10. 01 May, 2021 2 commits
  11. 24 Apr, 2021 2 commits
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists · 69bc8d38
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
      is missing in the kernel tree.
      
        WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
                 Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.
      
      I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
      not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
      kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
      for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'.
      
      A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
      vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
      already exists in spite of its incomplete content.
      
      The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.
      
      This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
      modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
      concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.
      
      Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
      modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
      is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
      because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      69bc8d38
    • Rasmus Villemoes's avatar
      kbuild: add CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP expert option · 5cc12472
      Rasmus Villemoes authored
      
      It can be quite useful to have ld emit a link map file, in order to
      debug or verify that special sections end up where they are supposed
      to, and to see what LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION manages to get rid
      of.
      
      The only reason I'm not just adding this unconditionally is that the
      .map file can be rather large (several MB), and that's a waste of
      space when one isn't interested in these things. Also make it depend
      on CONFIG_EXPERT.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      5cc12472
  12. 04 Feb, 2021 1 commit
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  17. 06 Jun, 2020 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost · 269a535c
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      The full build runs modpost twice, first for vmlinux.o and second for
      modules.
      
      The first pass dumps all the vmlinux symbols into Module.symvers, but
      the second pass parses vmlinux again instead of reusing the dump file,
      presumably because it needs to avoid accumulating stale symbols.
      
      Loading symbol info from a dump file is faster than parsing an ELF object.
      Besides, modpost deals with various issues to parse vmlinux in the second
      pass.
      
      A solution is to make the first pass dumps symbols into a separate file,
      vmlinux.symvers. The second pass reads it, and parses module .o files.
      The merged symbol information is dumped into Module.symvers in the same
      way as before.
      
      This makes further modpost cleanups possible.
      
      Also, it fixes the problem of 'make vmlinux', which previously overwrote
      Module.symvers, throwing away module symbols.
      
      I slightly touched scripts/link-vmlinux.sh so that vmlinux is re-linked
      when you cross this commit. Otherwis...
      269a535c
  18. 25 Mar, 2020 1 commit
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  21. 11 Nov, 2019 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file · bbc55bde
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      The modpost, with the -d option given, generates per-module .ns_deps
      files.
      
      Kbuild generates per-module .mod files to carry module information.
      This is convenient because Make handles multiple jobs in parallel
      when the -j option is given.
      
      On the other hand, the modpost always runs as a single thread.
      I do not see a strong reason to produce separate .ns_deps files.
      
      This commit changes the modpost to generate just one file,
      modules.nsdeps, each line of which has the following format:
      
        <module_name>: <list of missing namespaces>
      
      Please note it contains *missing* namespaces instead of required ones.
      So, modules.nsdeps is empty if the namespace dependency is all good.
      
      This will work more efficiently because spatch will no longer process
      already imported namespaces. I removed the '(if needed)' from the
      nsdeps log since spatch is invoked only when needed.
      
      This also solves the stale .ns_deps problem reported by Jessica Yu:
      
        https://lkml....
      bbc55bde
  22. 10 Sep, 2019 1 commit
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  24. 27 Jul, 2019 1 commit
  25. 17 Jul, 2019 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR · b7dca6dd
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
      but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.
      
      To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
      for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
      necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
      directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.
      
      Later, commit 551559e1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
      modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
      with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
      *.mod files.
      
      $(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
      are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
      the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
      fragile.
      
      Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
      conflict:
      
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
      
      I...
      b7dca6dd
  26. 09 Jul, 2019 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: do not create wrappers for header-test-y · c93a0368
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      header-test-y does not work with headers in sub-directories.
      
      For example, you may want to write a Makefile, like this:
      
      include/linux/Kbuild:
      
        header-test-y += mtd/nand.h
      
      This entry will create a wrapper include/linux/mtd/nand.hdrtest.c
      with the following content:
      
        #include "mtd/nand.h"
      
      To make this work, we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux to the
      header search path. It would be tedious to add ccflags-y.
      
      Instead, we could change the *.hdrtest.c rule to wrap:
      
        #include "nand.h"
      
      This works for in-tree build since #include "..." searches in the
      relative path from the header with this directive. For O=... build,
      we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux/mtd to the header search path,
      which will be even more tedious.
      
      After all, I thought it would be handier to compile headers directly
      without creating wrappers.
      
      I added a new build rule to compile %.h into %.h.s
      
      The target is %.h.s instead of %.h.o because it is slightly faster.
      Also, as for GCC, an empty assembly is smaller than an empty object.
      
      I wrote the build rule:
      
        $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c /dev/null -include $<
      
      instead of:
      
        $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c $<
      
      Both work fine with GCC, but the latter is bad for Clang.
      
      This comes down to the difference in the -Wunused-function policy.
      GCC does not warn about unused 'static inline' functions at all.
      Clang does not warn about the ones in included headers, but does
      about the ones in the source. So, we should handle headers as
      headers, not as source files.
      
      In fact, this has been hidden since commit abb2ea7d
      
       ("compiler,
      clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions"), but we
      should not rely on that.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
      c93a0368
  27. 15 Jun, 2019 1 commit
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  29. 08 May, 2019 1 commit
  30. 07 May, 2019 2 commits
    • Alexey Gladkov's avatar
      moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file · 898490c0
      Alexey Gladkov authored
      
      Problem:
      
      When a kernel module is compiled as a separate module, some important
      information about the kernel module is available via .modinfo section of
      the module.  In contrast, when the kernel module is compiled into the
      kernel, that information is not available.
      
      Information about built-in modules is necessary in the following cases:
      
      1. When it is necessary to find out what additional parameters can be
      passed to the kernel at boot time.
      
      2. When you need to know which module names and their aliases are in
      the kernel. This is very useful for creating an initrd image.
      
      Proposal:
      
      The proposed patch does not remove .modinfo section with module
      information from the vmlinux at the build time and saves it into a
      separate file after kernel linking. So, the kernel does not increase in
      size and no additional information remains in it. Information is stored
      in the same format as in the separate modules (null-terminated string
      array). Because the .modinfo section is already exported with a separate
      modules, we are not creating a new API.
      
      It can be easily read in the userspace:
      
      $ tr '\0' '\n' < modules.builtin.modinfo
      ext4.softdep=pre: crc32c
      ext4.license=GPL
      ext4.description=Fourth Extended Filesystem
      ext4.author=Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
      ext4.alias=fs-ext4
      ext4.alias=ext3
      ext4.alias=fs-ext3
      ext4.alias=ext2
      ext4.alias=fs-ext2
      md_mod.alias=block-major-9-*
      md_mod.alias=md
      md_mod.description=MD RAID framework
      md_mod.license=GPL
      md_mod.parmtype=create_on_open:bool
      md_mod.parmtype=start_dirty_degraded:int
      ...
      Co-Developed-by: default avatarGleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      898490c0
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      .gitignore: add leading and trailing slashes to generated directories · 1e35663e
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      Clarify these directory paths are relative to the top of the source
      tree.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      1e35663e
  31. 13 Dec, 2018 1 commit
    • Rob Herring's avatar
      kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks · 4f0e3a57
      Rob Herring authored
      
      This adds the build infrastructure for checking DT binding schema
      documents and validating dts files using the binding schema.
      
      Check DT binding schema documents:
      make dt_binding_check
      
      Build dts files and check using DT binding schema:
      make dtbs_check
      
      Optionally, DT_SCHEMA_FILES can be passed in with a schema file(s) to
      use for validation. This makes it easier to find and fix errors
      generated by a specific schema.
      
      Currently, the validation targets are separate from a normal build to
      avoid a hard dependency on the external DT schema project and because
      there are lots of warnings generated.
      
      Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
      Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
      4f0e3a57
  32. 11 Apr, 2018 1 commit
    • Miguel Ojeda's avatar
      clang-format: add configuration file · d4ef8d3f
      Miguel Ojeda authored
      clang-format is a tool to format C/C++/...  code according to a set of
      rules and heuristics.  Like most tools, it is not perfect nor covers
      every single case, but it is good enough to be helpful.
      
      In particular, it is useful for quickly re-formatting blocks of code
      automatically, for reviewing full files in order to spot coding style
      mistakes, typos and possible improvements.  It is also handy for sorting
      ``#includes``, for aligning variables and macros, for reflowing text and
      other similar tasks.  It also serves as a teaching tool/guide for
      newcomers.
      
      The tool itself has been already included in the repositories of popular
      Linux distributions for a long time.  The rules in this file are
      intended for clang-format >= 4, which is easily available in most
      distributions.
      
      This commit adds the configuration file that contains the rules that the
      tool uses to know how to format the code according to the kernel coding
      style.  This gives us several advantages:
      
        * clang-format works out of the box with reasonable defaults;
          avoiding that everyone has to re-do the configuration.
      
        * Everyone agrees (eventually) on what is the most useful default
          configuration for most of the kernel.
      
        * If it becomes commonplace among kernel developers, clang-format
          may feel compelled to support us better. They already recognize
          the Linux kernel and its style in their documentation and in one
          of the style sub-options.
      
      Some of clang-format's features relevant for the kernel are:
      
        * Uses clang's tooling support behind the scenes to parse and rewrite
          the code. It is not based on ad-hoc regexps.
      
        * Supports reasonably well the Linux kernel coding style.
      
        * Fast enough to be used at the press of a key.
      
        * There are already integrations (either built-in or third-party)
          for many common editors used by kernel developers (e.g. vim,
          emacs, Sublime, Atom...) that allow you to format an entire file
          or, more usefully, just your selection.
      
        * Able to parse unified diffs -- you can, for instance, reformat
          only the lines changed by a git commit.
      
        * Able to reflow text comments as well.
      
        * Widely supported and used by hundreds of developers in highly
          complex projects and organizations (e.g. the LLVM project itself,
          Chromium, WebKit, Google, Mozilla...). Therefore, it will be
          supported for a long time.
      
      See more information about the tool at:
      
          https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
          https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180318171632.qfkemw3mwbcukth6@gmail.com
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d4ef8d3f
  33. 07 Apr, 2018 3 commits