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2018-08-20Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6Joe Perches1-1/+1
Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the gcc compiler. An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]: > > In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0, > from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7, > from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10, > from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32: > ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct > > This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem > with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well. So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/ Miscellanea: - Update Documentation/process/changes.rst - Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for versions lower than 4.6 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2-1/+2
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: - Gustavo A. R. Silva keeps working on the implicit switch fallthru changes. - Support 802.11ax High-Efficiency wireless in cfg80211 et al, From Luca Coelho. - Re-enable ASPM in r8169, from Kai-Heng Feng. - Add virtual XFRM interfaces, which avoids all of the limitations of existing IPSEC tunnels. From Steffen Klassert. - Convert GRO over to use a hash table, so that when we have many flows active we don't traverse a long list during accumluation. - Many new self tests for routing, TC, tunnels, etc. Too many contributors to mention them all, but I'm really happy to keep seeing this stuff. - Hardware timestamping support for dpaa_eth/fsl-fman from Yangbo Lu. - Lots of cleanups and fixes in L2TP code from Guillaume Nault. - Add IPSEC offload support to netdevsim, from Shannon Nelson. - Add support for slotting with non-uniform distribution to netem packet scheduler, from Yousuk Seung. - Add UDP GSO support to mlx5e, from Boris Pismenny. - Support offloading of Team LAG in NFP, from John Hurley. - Allow to configure TX queue selection based upon RX queue, from Amritha Nambiar. - Support ethtool ring size configuration in aquantia, from Anton Mikaev. - Support DSCP and flowlabel per-transport in SCTP, from Xin Long. - Support list based batching and stack traversal of SKBs, this is very exciting work. From Edward Cree. - Busyloop optimizations in vhost_net, from Toshiaki Makita. - Introduce the ETF qdisc, which allows time based transmissions. IGB can offload this in hardware. From Vinicius Costa Gomes. - Add parameter support to devlink, from Moshe Shemesh. - Several multiplication and division optimizations for BPF JIT in nfp driver, from Jiong Wang. - Lots of prepatory work to make more of the packet scheduler layer lockless, when possible, from Vlad Buslov. - Add ACK filter and NAT awareness to sch_cake packet scheduler, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen. - Support regions and region snapshots in devlink, from Alex Vesker. - Allow to attach XDP programs to both HW and SW at the same time on a given device, with initial support in nfp. From Jakub Kicinski. - Add TLS RX offload and support in mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin. - Use PHYLIB in r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit. - All sorts of changes to support Spectrum 2 in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel. - PTP support in mv88e6xxx DSA driver, from Andrew Lunn. - Make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option more accurate, from Jon Maxwell. - Support for templates in packet scheduler classifier, from Jiri Pirko. - IPV6 support in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon. - Native tproxy support in nf_tables, from Máté Eckl. - Maintain IP fragment queue in an rbtree, but optimize properly for in-order frags. From Peter Oskolkov. - Improvde handling of ACKs on hole repairs, from Yuchung Cheng" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1996 commits) bpf: test: fix spelling mistake "REUSEEPORT" -> "REUSEPORT" hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback net: filter: mark expected switch fall-through xen-netfront: fix warn message as irq device name has '/' cxgb4: Add new T5 PCI device ids 0x50af and 0x50b0 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: missing unlock on error path rds: fix building with IPV6=m inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bitwise vs logical bug net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd() ieee802154: hwsim: using right kind of iteration net: hns3: Add vlan filter setting by ethtool command -K net: hns3: Set tx ring' tc info when netdev is up net: hns3: Remove tx ring BD len register in hns3_enet net: hns3: Fix desc num set to default when setting channel net: hns3: Fix for phy link issue when using marvell phy driver net: hns3: Fix for information of phydev lost problem when down/up net: hns3: Fix for command format parsing error in hclge_is_all_function_id_zero net: hns3: Add support for serdes loopback selftest bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack ...
2018-08-15Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds1-0/+8
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not installed - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of Makefile - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory - do not try to update the .config when running install targets - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files - misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kconfig: remove P_ENV property type kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease' kbuild: do not update config when running install targets kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback() kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
2018-08-15Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds1-12/+7
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - verify depmod is installed before modules_install - support build salt in case build ids must be unique between builds - allow users to specify additional host compiler flags via HOST*FLAGS, and rename internal variables to KBUILD_HOST*FLAGS - update buildtar script to drop vax support, add arm64 support - update builddeb script for better debarch support - document the pit-fall of if_changed usage - fix parallel build of UML with O= option - make 'samples' target depend on headers_install to fix build errors - remove deprecated host-progs variable - add a new coccinelle script for refcount_t vs atomic_t check - improve double-test coccinelle script - misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits) coccicheck: return proper error code on fail Coccinelle: doubletest: reduce side effect false positives kbuild: remove deprecated host-progs variable kbuild: make samples really depend on headers_install um: clean up archheaders recipe kbuild: add %asm-generic to no-dot-config-targets um: fix parallel building with O= option scripts: Add Python 3 support to tracing/draw_functrace.py builddeb: Add automatic support for sh{3,4}{,eb} architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for riscv* architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for m68k architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for or1k architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for sparc64 architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for mips{,64}r6{,el} architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for mips64el architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for ppc64 and powerpcspe architectures builddeb: Introduce functions to simplify kconfig tests in set_debarch builddeb: Drop check for 32-bit s390 builddeb: Change architecture detection fallback to use dpkg-architecture builddeb: Skip architecture detection when KBUILD_DEBARCH is set ...
2018-08-10Remove gendered language from management style documentationFox Foster1-12/+13
This small commit replaces gendered pronouns for neutral ones. Signed-off-by: Fox Foster <fox@tardis.ed.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26docs: Update references to netdev-FAQTobin C. Harding1-1/+1
File 'Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt' has been converted to RST format. We should update all links/references to point to the new file. Update references to netdev-FAQ Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-26docs: Add rest label the_canonical_patch_formatTobin C. Harding1-0/+1
In preparation to convert Documentation/network/netdev-FAQ.rst to restructured text format. We would like to be able to reference 'the canonical patch format' section. Add rest label: 'the_canonical_patch_format'. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-18kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}configRandy Dunlap1-0/+8
Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-18kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installedRandy Dunlap1-12/+7
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-06-29Documentation/process/howto.rst: add a missing cross-referenceMichael Rodin1-1/+1
Add a missing cross-reference from Documentation/process/howto.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst. Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-26Documentation/process: fix reST table border errorRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix reST error in Documentation/process/: Documentation/process/2.Process.rst:131: ERROR: Malformed table. Bottom/header table border does not match top border. Fixes: 8962e40c1993 ("docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Tim Bird <tbird20d@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-04Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds5-45/+85
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
2018-05-23docs: update kernel versions and dates in tablesTim Bird1-34/+38
Every once in a while, we should update the examples to reflect more recent kernel versions. Update the tables describing kernel releases, the merge window, and current longterm maintained kernel, from 2.6-era kernels to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-10Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 colsJustin Skists1-8/+8
Trivial patch to adjust the text formatting to wrap at 80 columns. No actual content has changed. Signed-off-by: Justin Skists <justin.skists@juzza.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08docs: */index.rst: Add newer documents to their respective index.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+1
A number of new docs were added, but they're currently not on the index.rst from the session they're supposed to be, causing Sphinx warnings. Add them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16Docs: tell maintainers to put [GIT PULL] in their subject linesMatthew Wilcox1-1/+1
It seems that Linus looks for [GIT PULL] in subject lines to ensure that pull requests don't get buried in the noise during merge windows. Update the docs to reflect that. [jc: From an impromptu post from willy, thus no SOB] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16Documentation/process: updates to the PGP guideKonstantin Ryabitsev1-2/+37
Small tweaks to the Maintainer PGP guide: - Use --quick-addkey command that is compatible between GnuPG-2.2 and GnuPG-2.1 (which many people still have) - Add a note about the Nitrokey program - Warn that some devices can't change the passphrase before there are keys on the card (specifically, Nitrokeys) - Link to the GnuPG wiki page about gpg-agent forwarding over ssh - Tell git to use gpgv2 instead of legacy gpgv when verifying signed tags or commits Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removalGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+0
There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries. Clean these all out as this stuff really is finally gone. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-15Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of fixes and updates for x86: - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned false - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible space. - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535 driver. - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite the reduced bit information with the original value. - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in the entry patch to the lower registers" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*() syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64 syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32 syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
2018-04-11clang-format: add configuration fileMiguel Ojeda3-0/+200
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: Miguel 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-09syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming conventionDominik Brodowski1-2/+2
Tidy the naming convention for compat syscall subs. Hints which describe the purpose of the stub go in front and receive a double underscore to denote that they are generated on-the-fly by the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro. For the generic case, this means: t kernel_waitid # common C function (see kernel/exit.c) __do_compat_sys_waitid # inlined helper doing the actual work # (takes original parameters as declared) T __se_compat_sys_waitid # sign-extending C function calling inlined # helper (takes parameters of type long, # casts them to unsigned long and then to # the declared type) T compat_sys_waitid # alias to __se_compat_sys_waitid() # (taking parameters as declared), to # be included in syscall table For x86, the naming is as follows: t kernel_waitid # common C function (see kernel/exit.c) __do_compat_sys_waitid # inlined helper doing the actual work # (takes original parameters as declared) t __se_compat_sys_waitid # sign-extending C function calling inlined # helper (takes parameters of type long, # casts them to unsigned long and then to # the declared type) T __ia32_compat_sys_waitid # IA32_EMULATION 32-bit-ptregs -> C stub, # calls __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be # included in syscall table T __x32_compat_sys_waitid # x32 64-bit-ptregs -> C stub, calls # __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be included # in syscall table If only one of IA32_EMULATION and x32 is enabled, __se_compat_sys_waitid() may be inlined into the stub __{ia32,x32}_compat_sys_waitid(). Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105145.5364-3-linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-03Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - add a shell script to get Clang version - improve portability of build scripts - drop always-enabled CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE and remove unused code - rename built-in.o which is now thin archive to built-in.a - process clean/build targets one by one to get along with -j option - simplify ld-option - improve building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS - define KBUILD_MODNAME even for objects shared among multiple modules - avoid linking multiple instances of same objects from composite objects - move <linux/compiler_types.h> to c_flags to include it only for C files - clean-up various Makefiles * tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (29 commits) kbuild: get <linux/compiler_types.h> out of <linux/kconfig.h> kbuild: clean up link rule of composite modules kbuild: clean up archive rule of built-in.a kbuild: remove partial section mismatch detection for built-in.a net: liquidio: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling lib: zstd: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling kbuild: link $(real-obj-y) instead of $(obj-y) into built-in.a kbuild: rename real-objs-y/m to real-obj-y/m kbuild: move modname and modname-multi close to modname_flags kbuild: simplify modname calculation kbuild: fix modname for composite modules kbuild: define KBUILD_MODNAME even if multiple modules share objects kbuild: remove unnecessary $(subst $(obj)/, , ...) in modname-multi kbuild: Use ls(1) instead of stat(1) to obtain file size kbuild: link vmlinux only once for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* kbuild: move CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS code unneeded for external module kbuild: restore autoksyms.h touch to the top Makefile kbuild: move 'scripts' target below kbuild: remove wrong 'touch' in adjust_autoksyms.sh ...
2018-04-03Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds8-29/+31
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around: - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya Pant. - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though. - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits) Documentation/process: update FUSE project website docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface block: rbd: update sysfs interface Documentation/sparse: fix typo Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces docs/vm: update 00-INDEX kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings ...
2018-04-02kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitionsDominik Brodowski1-1/+1
This keeps it in line with the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() / COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() calling convention. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-29Documentation/process: update FUSE project websiteMartin Kepplinger1-1/+1
According to the old project site, https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ the project has moved to https://github.com/libfuse/ so we update the link to point to the latest libfuse release. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typoMartin Kepplinger1-1/+1
This fixes a little then / them confusion. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.aNicholas Piggin1-1/+1
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which is the usual extension for archive files. This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace: git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g' The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2: -libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y))) +libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y))) Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-03-25syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernelDominik Brodowski1-0/+32
The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be userspace in order to make use of syscalls. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-23COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license filesMauro Carvalho Chehab1-9/+11
With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE: LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on those files are identical with COPYING using: $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at the Kernel source files: Documentation/process/license-rules.rst Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license. Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly. Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as is, without any changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-21Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for bracesGary R Hook1-0/+9
Add another example of required braces when using a compound statement in a loop. Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07documentation: add my name to kernel driver statementAaro Koskinen1-0/+1
Add my name to kernel driver statement. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07docs: add Co-Developed-by docsTobin C. Harding1-2/+7
When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> [jc: tweaked commas in the subheading] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-18Documentation/process/howto: Remove outdated info about bugzilla mailing listsJonathan Neuschäfer1-8/+0
The mailing list archives[1,2] show no activity since September 2011. [1]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/ [2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-janitors/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-16Documentation: Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing listMinghui Liu1-7/+0
Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing list because the mailing list no longer exists Signed-off-by: Minghui Liu <minghui.liu.95@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-13Documentation/process: Co-developed-by instead of Co-Developed-byDominik Brodowski1-1/+1
Up to now, all commit messages have used the "d" in lower case. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-07Merge tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds3-1/+931
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that had no reason to wait another cycle" * tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
2018-02-06Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guideKonstantin Ryabitsev1-16/+34
Based on the feedback provided: - Uniformly use lowercase k in "Linux kernel" - Give a one-sentence explanation of what subkeys are - Explain what signed commits might be useful for even if upstream developers do not use them for much of anything - Admonish to set up gpg-agent if signed commits are turned on in git config - Fix a typo reported by Luc Van Oostenryck Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds1-0/+25
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: "A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates. I have to mention the lexer and parser of Kconfig are now built from real .l and .y sources. So, flex and bison are the requirement for building the kernel. Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for a long time. This change has been tested several weeks in linux-next, and I did not receive any problem report about this. Summary: - add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in choice, help is doubled - document data structure and complex code - fix various memory leaks - change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using pre-generated C files - drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool' - use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables - fix gettext() check for xconfig - announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed - make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and search result - hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people - fix misc things and cleanups" * tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (37 commits) kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing kconfig: Clarify menu and 'if' dependency propagation kconfig: Document 'if' flattening logic kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation kconfig: Document SYMBOL_OPTIONAL logic kbuild: remove unnecessary LEX_PREFIX and YACC_PREFIX kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser kconfig: make conf_unsaved a local variable of conf_read() kconfig: make xfgets() really static kconfig: make input_mode static kconfig: Warn if there is more than one help text kconfig: drop 'boolean' keyword kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes, again kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry() kconfig: Document important expression functions kconfig: Document automatic submenu creation code kconfig: Fix choice symbol expression leak ...
2018-02-01Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rstGrigory Shipunov1-1/+1
Kernel Glossary has moved from /Glossary to /KernelGlossary on kernelnewbies.org. This patch corrects this link. Signed-off-by: Grigory Shipunov <mail@oxapentane.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guideKonstantin Ryabitsev2-0/+912
This guide is an adapted version of the more general "Protecting Code Integrity" guide written and maintained by The Linux Foundation IT for use with open-source projects. It provides the oft-lacking guidance on the following topics: - how to properly protect one's PGP keys to minimize the risks of them being stolen and used maliciously to impersonate a kernel developer - how to configure Git to properly use GnuPG - when and how to use PGP with Git - how to verify fellow Linux Kernel developer identities I believe this document should live with the rest of the documentation describing proper processes one should follow when participating in kernel development. Placing it in a wiki on some place like kernel.org would be insufficient for a number of reasons -- primarily, because only a relatively small subset of maintainers have accounts on kernel.org, but also because even those who do rarely remember that such wiki exists. Keeping it with the rest of in-kernel docs should hopefully give it more visibility, but also help keep it up-to-date as tools and processes evolve. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-01-31Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds3-1/+376
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation, kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers, and lots of fixes and updates. As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the maintainer" * tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits) linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception LICENSES: Add the MIT license LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt errseq: Add to documentation tree ...
2018-01-06Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licensesThomas Gleixner1-0/+370
Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to refer to (LICENSES/). Thanks to Kate and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21docs: fix process/submit-checklist.rst Sphinx warningMarkus Heiser1-2/+2
add missing indent whitespace to list item, fixes the warning: - process/submit-checklist.rst:41: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add myself to the enforcement statement listDavid Sterba1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add Luis R. Rodriguez to list of enforcement statement endorsersLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add Kees Cook to list of enforcement statement endorsersKees Cook1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-16kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bisonMasahiro Yamada1-0/+25
In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-11Documentation/process: Add CONFIG default value to submit-checklistDarren Hart (VMware)1-1/+3
Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-06Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh to v4.15Ingo Molnar1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-29Documentation: Add Arnaldo Melo to list of enforcement statement endorsersArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>