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This is an alternative approach to lower the overhead of debug info
(as we discussed a few days ago)

gcc 4.7+ and newer binutils have a new "split debug info" debug info
model where the debug info is only written once into central ".dwo" files.

This avoids having to copy it around multiple times, from the object
files to the final executable. It lowers the disk space
requirements. In addition it defaults to compressed debug data.

More details here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission

This patch adds a new option to enable it. It has to be an option,
because it'll undoubtedly break everyone's debuginfo packaging scheme.
gdb/objdump/etc. all still work, if you have new enough versions.

I don't see big compile wins (maybe a second or two faster or so), but the
object dirs with debuginfo get significantly smaller. My standard kernel
config (slightly bigger than defconfig) shrinks from 2.9G disk space
to 1.1G objdir (with non reduced debuginfo). I presume if you are IO...

When using `make M=/path/to/driver modules` to build a module, file
Module.symvers will be created in that directory, so it's better to
ignore it in all directories.

Slightly reordered, let specific file names behind general ones.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

This is used by kbuild to load preset Kconfig options.  We need to
ignore it, otherwise git clean kills it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now that lz4 kernel compression is available, add *.lz4 to .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since userspace headers were moved to generated/uapi it possible to have a
stale copy of linux/version.h at that file's old location.  This causes
confusion after building an older kernel version, then checking out and
building a new one; the old (stale) version header will still get picked
up until it is manually removed.  This upsets the C library.

Since the uapi changes, include/linux/version.h is no longer generated and
should not be ignored, so this patch removes it from .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Petit <kevin.petit@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The module build process no longer creates intermediate files for module
signing, so remove them from .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files to hide and clean up the
extra files produced by module signing stuff once it is added.  Also add a
clean up rule for the module content extractor program used to extract the data
to be signed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Have git ignore the Debian directory created when running:
	make deb-pkg
Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

There is an increasing amount of header files
shared between individual architectures in asm-generic.
To avoid a lot of dummy wrapper files that just
include the corresponding file in asm-generic provide
some basic support in kbuild for this.

With the following patch an architecture can maintain
a list of files in the file arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild

To use a generic file just add:

        generic-y += <name-of-header-file.h>

For each file listed kbuild will generate the necessary
wrapper in arch/$(ARCH)/include/generated/asm.

When installing userspace headers a wrapper is likewise created.

The original inspiration for this came from the unicore32
patchset - although a different method is used.

The patch includes several improvements from Arnd Bergmann.
Michael Marek contributed Makefile.asm-generic.

Remis Baima did an intial implementation along to achive
the same - see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/13352/

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Building with CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ results in the following:

 # Untracked files:
 #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
 #
 #       arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.xz

So ignore xz-compressed files at the top level like we already do for
other compression types.
Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Ignore files compressed with lzop.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Some of the gitignore file patters were explicitly meant to be only for
the top level, but weren't marked that way, so they would trigger
recursively in subdirectories too.  Normally that was harmless, but at
least "linux" happened to trigger elsewhere too. Fix it up.

And other patterns in that section weren't necessarily top-level at all.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Tell git to ignore the generated files under um, except:

 include/shared/kern_constants.h
 include/shared/user_constants.h

which will be moved to include/generated.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

MIPS compressed kernels output a vmlinuz file in the top-level directory
(maybe others do).  Add vmlinuz to the list of files to ignore by git.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

To make it easier for module-init-tools and scripts like mkinitrd to
distinguish builtin and missing modules, install a modules.builtin file
listing all builtin modules. This is done by generating an additional
config file (tristate.conf) with tristate options set to uppercase 'Y'
or 'M'. If we source that config file, the builtin modules appear in
obj-Y.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Fix up all users of utsrelease.h
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

We no longer use this directory for generated files and
all architectures has moved their header files so no
symlink tricks are needed either.

Drop the symlink and drop the ARCH check.

If we really need to check that the SRCARCH has not changed
when we build a kernel we can add this check back - but then we will
find a more convenient way to store the info.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

We can have bzip2 compressed images nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Ignore *.gcno files which are generated by gcov.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Ignore GPATH, GRTAGS, GSYMS, and GTAGS generated by GNU GLOBAL.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

We need a location for generated files.
Today they are spread over several places and bringing them
together to a common place makes it obvious hat is generated
and what isreal files.

Al Viro originally suggested: include/gen
Linus suggested to spell it out.

This patch implement support for

    include/generated

All files in include/generated are ignored by git.
include/generated is removed during "make mrproper".

With this we are ready to implement support for include/generated
in the various architctures and in the base kernel.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Removed vmlinux* rule because it matches too many useful files, replacing
it with rules matching filetype by filename (e.g. *.gz). Also unignored
.mailmap from the top directory. Added a comment telling the user how to
check for tracked files being ignored.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Added !vmlinux.lds.h to .gitignore because it would otherwise be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Sometimes I got this:

    $ git-status
    {snip}
    # On branch master
    # Untracked files:
    #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
    #
    #       ncscope.out
    nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add"
to track)

Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

With commit 3f1b0e1f

 ".gitignore update"
Linus's current git tree starts to ignore any "*.rej" files.
So "git status" no longer shows these files, but the ones who works with
quilt patchsets, this not makes life easier as expected.
Because sometimes a work flow (at least for me) requires
"quilt push -f" followed by "git status" to see unresolved merge
conflicts, work on these conflicts to correct them and finalize
the patch with "quilt refresh".

And if there are some "*.rej" files exists in tree, for whatever
reason, this means something goes really wrong there and i think
this situation not deserves to be ignored.
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

(which is autogenerated by kbuild)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add some autogenerated files to various .gitignore files
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Introducing the new modules.order patch created a number
of additional files. Teach git to ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

vdso / vsycall create .so.dbg files now.
Add *.so.dbg to the main .ignore file

Exclude the compile time created boot directory in arch/x86_64 as well
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch:
- makes .gitignore files visible to git
- makes arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_32.lds and arch/i386/boot invisible
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Somehow I ended up with the following in tree:

	$ git status
		...
	# Untracked files:
	#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
	#
	#       fs/proc/root.o.FuMxJQ
	#       net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.o.geCDYR

These are presumably temporary gcc files, which aren't interesting.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We ignore all the generated files called "vmlinux*" from the top-level
gitignore, but that also ends up catching a few files that we track, and
that people do edit.  Notably the "vmlinux.lds.S" file, that each
architecture has.

You can always use "git add -f" to override the ignore file, but we
might as well just make it explicit for this file.
Bitten-by-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>