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2013-05-07Merge branch 'misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek: "Non-critical kbuild changes: - make coccicheck improvements, but no new semantic patches this time - make rpm improvements - make tar-pkg change to include the architecture in the filename. This is a deliberate incompatibility, but nobody has complained so far and it is useful if you build for different architectures. It also matches what the deb-pkg and rpm-pkg targets produce. - kbuild documentation fix" * 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: rpm-pkg: Remove pointless set -e statements rpm-pkg: Always regenerate the specfile rpm-pkg: Do not write to the parent directory rpm-pkg: Do not package the whole source directory buildtar: Add ARCH to the archive name Coccinelle: Fix patch output when coccicheck is used with M= and C= Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable Coccinelle: Cleanup the setting of the FLAGS and OPTIONS variables Coccinelle: Restore coccicheck verbosity in ONLINE mode (C=1 or C=2) scripts/package/Makefile: compare objtree with srctree instead of test KBUILD_OUTPUT doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for OFFSET and DEFINE
2013-04-08doc: change example to existing Makefile fragmentPaul Bolle
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-08kbuild: fix ld-option functionAntony Pavlov
The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because the command $(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO" does not create object file! I have used a relatively old mips gcc 3.4.6 cross-compiler and a relatively new gcc 4.7.2 to check this fact but the results are the same. EXAMPLE: $ rm /tmp/1.o $ mips-linux-gcc /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o mips-linux-gcc: /dev/null: linker input file unused because linking not done $ ls -la /tmp/1.o ls: cannot access /tmp/1.o: No such file or directory We can easily fix the problem by adding the '-x c' compiler option. EXAMPLE: $ rm /tmp/1.o $ mips-linux-gcc -x c /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o $ ls -la /tmp/1.o -rw-r--r-- 1 antony antony 778 Apr 2 20:40 /tmp/1.o Also fix wrong ld-option example. Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-02-08kbuild: create a rule to run the pre-processor on *.dts filesStephen Warren
Create cmd_dtc_cpp to run the C pre-processor on *.dts file before passing them to dtc for final compilation. This allows the use of #define and #include within the .dts file. Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2012-11-30kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb ruleStephen Warren
All architectures that use cmd_dtc do so in almost the same way. Create a central build rule to avoid duplication. The one difference is that most current uses of dtc build $(obj)/%.dtb from $(src)/dts/%.dts rather than building the .dtb in the same directory as the .dts file. This difference will be eliminated arch-by-arch in future patches. MIPS is the exception here; it already uses the exact same rule as the new common rule, so the duplicate is removed in this patch to avoid any conflict. arch/mips changes courtesy of Ralf Baechle. Update Documentation/kbuild to remove the explicit call to cmd_dtc from the example, now that the rule exists in a centralized location. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
2012-10-02UAPI: Remove the objhdr-y export listDavid Howells
Remove the objhdr-y export list as it is no longer used. genhdr-y should be used instead. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2011-11-17kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" targetH. Peter Anvin
Add support for an "archheaders" target. This target can generate files that need to be installed for user space by "make headers_install" or "make headers_install_all". In order to support "make headers_install_all", it must be able to run without the tree having to be configured first. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-13doc: fix wrong arch/i386 referencesWanlong Gao
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/, since the directory has changed. Also update the files which have changed their filename in the meantime accordingly. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> [jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-03kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+Michal Marek
Starting with 4.4, gcc will happily accept -Wno-<anything> in the cc-option test and complain later when compiling a file that has some other warning. This rather unexpected behavior is intentional as per http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28322, so work around it by testing for support of the opposite option (without the no-). Introduce a new Makefile function cc-disable-warning that does this and update two uses of cc-option in the toplevel Makefile. Reported-and-tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-28kbuild: asm-generic supportSam Ravnborg
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>
2011-04-20kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19Michal Marek
The D option of ar is only available in newer versions. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-02-17kbuild, mtd, net: a few comment typo fixes and rewordingGilles Espinasse
Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-23of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinuxDirk Brandewie
This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking .dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image. Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to wrap the blobs for linking. STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. The STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition. The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob to get the structure alignment GCC expects. A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using obj-y += foo.dtb.o Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-10-28Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings scripts/setlocalversion: update comment kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree) scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
2010-09-13Merge branch 'kbuild/clean' into kbuild/kbuildMichal Marek
2010-08-14kbuild: drop unifdef-y supportSam Ravnborg
unifdef-y is not used anymore - drop remaining references Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections trivial: fix a typo in a filename frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version Makefile.build: make KBUILD_SYMTYPES work again
2010-08-05Documentation: fix kbuild typos and wordingNicolas Kaiser
Fixed some typos and wording. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05Documentation: update kbuild make typos/grammar/text flowMatt Mooney
Update section 3.7 examples to reflect the current state of the Makefiles used. Fix spelling and grammar errors along with flow of text. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05Documentation: update kbuild make examples#2 to reflect changesMatt Mooney
Update section 3.2 and 3.5 example, along with text in section 3.5 to reflect change. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05Documentation: update kbuild loadable modules goals & examplesMatt Mooney
Update section 3.3 Loadable module goals - obj-m, from $(<module_name>-objs) to $(<module_name>-y) for easier addition of conditional objects to the module. The examples are also updated to reflect the current state of each Makefile used. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-03kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command lineSam Ravnborg
It is now possible to assign options to AS and CC on the command line - which is only used for built-in code. {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL was used both in the top-level Makefile in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify additional options to AS, CC without overriding the original value. Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL that is used by arch specific files and free up {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL so they can be assigned on the command line. All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-03kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command lineSam Ravnborg
It is now possible to assign options to AS, CC and LD on the command line - which is only used when building modules. {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE was all used both in the top-level Makefile in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify additional options to AS, CC, LD when building modules without overriding the original value. Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE that is used by arch specific files and free up {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE so they can be assigned on the command line. All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated. Note: Previously we had a MODFLAGS variable for both AS and CC. But in favour of consistency this was dropped. So in some cases arch Makefile has one assignmnet replaced by two assignmnets. Note2: MODFLAGS was not documented and is dropped without any notice. I do not expect much/any breakage from this. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin] Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [avr32] Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-05-27kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflictMichal Marek
A more complete patch in the kernel-doc tree also contains this change. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-11kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.hMichal Marek
Commit 7d3cc8b tried to keep bounds.h and asm-offsets.h during make clean by filtering these out of $(clean-files), but they are listed in $(targets) and $(always) and thus removed automatically. Introduce a new $(no-clean-files) variable to really skip such files in Makefile.clean. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-02-17kbuild: fix a couple of typos in DocumentationKirill Smelkov
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-09-20kbuild: introduce ld-optionSam Ravnborg
ld-option is used to check if $(LD) supports a specific option. Based on patch from Andi Kleen. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> First use is to check if option -X is supported (upcoming patch). Theis is ne
2009-09-20kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoptionSam Ravnborg
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld. Renamed it to reflect this. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-04-19kbuild: introduce subdir-ccflags-ySam Ravnborg
Following patch introduce support for setting options to gcc that has effect for current directory and all subdirectories. The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that decide to cover all files with -Werror. Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so as only the top-level directories needs to be covered. Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single line to net/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-04-11kbuild: introduce destination-y for exported headersSam Ravnborg
xtensa and arm have asked for a possibility to export headers and locate them in a specific directory when exported. Introduce destiantion-y to support this. This patch in additiona adds some limited documentation for the variables used for exported headers. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
2008-12-03kbuild: introduce $(kecho) convenience echoMike Frysinger
There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show some nice status lines. This means we still get output when running in silent mode. So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we are in a suitable verbose build mode. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [sam: added Documentation] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-22kbuild: cc-cross-prefix spellingGeert Uytterhoeven
Spelling fixes for cc-cross-prefix documentation Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-19kbuild: introduce cc-cross-prefixSam Ravnborg
cc-cross-prefix is useful for the architecture that like to provide a default CROSS_COMPILE value, but may have several to select between. Sample usage: ifneq ($(SUBARCH),$(ARCH)) ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),) CROSS_COMPILE := $(call cc-cross-prefix, m68k-linux-gnu- m68k-linux-) endif endif Actual usage by the different archs will taken care of later. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-ySam Ravnborg
Introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y so we soon can deprecate use of EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS. This patch does not touch any in-tree users - thats next round. Lets get this committed first and then fix the users of the soon to be deprecated variants next. The rationale behind this change is to introduce support for makefile fragments like: ccflags-$(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG As a replacement for the uglier: ifeq ($(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG),y) EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DDEBUG endif Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPPSam Ravnborg
The variable CPPFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. This patch replace use of CPPFLAGS with KBUILD_CPPFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CPPFLAGS=... to specify additional CPP commandline options. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to ASSam Ravnborg
The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over the tree. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-14kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CCSam Ravnborg
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CFLAGS=... to specify additional gcc commandline options. One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other use cases has been requested too. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check that nothing got rebuild. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGSSam Ravnborg
EXTRA_ARFLAGS have never been used so no need to carry around on this. A google search did not reveal any external module using this either. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txtSam Ravnborg
Small error had sneaked in with respect to use of LDFLAGS_$@. LDFLAGS_$@ is not valid in normal kbuild files so do not say so. Fix a reference bug too. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16kbuild: document cc-fullversionSam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-02-17kbuild: more doc. cleanupsRandy Dunlap
Fix typos/spellos in kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-04[PATCH] docs: small kbuild cleanupDaniel Walker
While reading this I noticed that the contents of this document list section "3.8 Command line dependency" but it doesn't exist in the document. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] x86: Detect CFI support in the assembler at runtimeAndi Kleen
... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls if the resulting executable actually has unwind information. This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Cc: sam@ravnborg.org Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-25kbuild: fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txtBryce Harrington
I noticed a few typos while reading makefiles.txt to learn about the kbuild system. Attached is a patch against 2.6.18 to fix them. Remove trailing whitespace while we are there.. Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txtJan Engelhardt
I have done a look-through through Documentation/kbuild/ and my corrections (proposed) are attached. Cc'ed are original author Michael (responsible for comitting changes to these files?), Sam (kbuild maintainer), Adrian (-trivial maintainer). Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] vDSO hash-style fixRoland McGrath
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and dynamically-linked executables. The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces ".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the dynamic linker. The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both. In some new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash". The new ".gnu.hash" sections need to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the dynamic linker cares about their contents. To work with older dynamic linkers (i.e. preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old ".hash" section. The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can still handle. The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO images for the kernel. On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed. This patch addresses the problem in two ways. First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash". This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools), with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both. Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced. This is the most conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland. There is some concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries. The optimizations provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has. If someone wants to use =gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will make any choice work fine. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-24kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing themTheodore Ts'o
Add option for stripping modules while installing them. This function adds support for stripping modules while they are being installed. CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL (which will probably become more popular as developers use kdump) causes the size of the installed modules to grow by a factor of 9 or so. Some kernel package systems solve this problem by stripping the debug information from /lib/modules after running "make modules_install", but that may not work for people who are installing directly into /lib/modules --- root partitions that were sized to handle 16 megs worth of modules may not be quite so happy with 145 megs of modules, so the "make modules_install" never succeeds. This patch allows such users to request modules_install to strip the modules as they are installed. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-10kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild filesSam Ravnborg
As noted by Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> makefiles.txt told one to use the name 'Kbuild' as preferred name for kbuild files. This is not yet true so let makefiles.txt reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19kbuild: make cc-version available in kbuild filesSam Ravnborg
Move $(CC) support functions to Kbuild.include so they are available in the kbuild files. In addition the following was done: o as-option documented in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt o Moved documentation to new section to match new scope of functions o added cc-ifversion used to conditionally select a text string dependent on actual $(CC) version o documented cc-ifversion o change so Kbuild.include is read before the kbuild file Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>