Replace outdated help message with a reference to README. Update README
for make *config variants and environment variable info.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> pointed out a
number of false positives where we referenced variables
from a _driver variable.
Fix it by check for that pattern and ignore it.
Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> pointed out a similar
set of warnings for a number of scsi drivers.
In scsi world they misname their variables *_template or
*_sht so add these to list of variables that may have references
to .init.text with no warning.
Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> also pointed out a scsi driver
with many references to .exit.text from .rodata. This is compiler
generated references and we already ignore these for .init.text, so
ignore them for .exit.text also.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
For easily getting fairly good accessibility, the TTY cursor should
always be left at the focus location. This patch fixes the checklist by
just having the list refreshed after the dialog box (hence the cursor
position remains in the list).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Configuration needs saving when either of these conditions is true.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Move the menuconfig output more into the centre again, it's using a
fixed position depending on the window width using the fact that the
menu output has to work in a 80 chars terminal.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
After the last patch fixed the real problem, revert this needless behaviour
change of conf, which only hid the real problem.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The wrong default value can cause conf to end up in endless loop for choice
questions.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
before is NULL in this case, concluding from the surrounding code
it seems that after is the right one to use.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Make it executable like it should be. Do the same for other files intended to be
executed by the user - the ones called by the build process needn't be
executable as they already work (as argument to their interpreter).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
initramfs.cpio.gz being build in usr/ and included in the
kernel was not rebuild when the included files changed.
To fix this the following was done:
- let gen_initramfs.sh generate a list of files and directories included
in the initramfs
- gen_initramfs generate the gzipped cpio archive so we could simplify
the kbuild file (Makefile)
- utilising the kbuild infrastructure so when uid/gid root mapping changes
the initramfs will be rebuild
With this change we have a much more robust initramfs generation.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This fix a longstanding bug where proper options was not
passed to hostcc in case of a make O=.. build.
This bug showed up in (not yet merged) klibc, and is not known
to have any counterpart in-kernel.
Fixed by moving the flags macro to Kbuild.include so it can be used
by both Makefile.lib and Makefile.host.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
functions based inside the vmlinux. The general idea is that it is possible
to put all "common" functions into the first 2Mb of the code, so that they
are covered by one TLB entry. This as opposed to the current situation where
a typical vmlinux covers about 3.5Mb (on x86-64) and thus 2 TLB entries.
This is done by enabling the -ffunction-sections flag in gcc, which puts
each function in its own ELF section, so that the linker can then order them
in a way defined by the linker script.
As per previous discussions, Linus said he wanted a "static" list for this,
eg a list provided by the kernel tarbal, so that most people have the same
ordering at least. A script is provided to create this list based on
readprofile(1) output. The included list is provisional, and entirely biased
on my own testbox and me running a few kernel compiles and some other
things.
I think that to get to a better list we need to invite people to submit
their own profiles, and somehow add those all up and base the final list on
that. I'm willing to do that effort if this is ends up being the prefered
approach. Such an effort probably needs to be repeated like once a year or
so to adopt to the changing nature of the kernel.
Made it a CONFIG with default n because it increases link times
dramatically.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The checks performed by scripts/reference_* has been moved to modpost.
Remove the files and their reference in top-level Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch adds the ability to mark symbols that will be changed in the
future, so that kernel modules that don't include MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
and use the symbols, will be flagged and printed out to the system log.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]
Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since .kconfig.d is used as a make dependency of include/linux/autoconf.h, it
should be written earlier than the header file, to avoid a subsequent rebuild
to consider the header outdated.
Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile rule for building .s files. This makes
the assembler output much more readable for humans.
Suggested by Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
o remove all inlines
o declare everything static which is only used by genksyms.c
o delete unused functions
o delete unused variables
o delete unused stuff in genksyms.h
o properly ident genksyms.h
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
genksyms needs to know when a symbol must have a "_" prefex as is
true for a few architectures.
Pass $(ARCH) as commandline argument and hardcode what architectures that
needs this info.
Previous attemt to take it from elfconfig.h was br0ken since elfconfig.h
is a generated file.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
.PHONY: does not take patterns so use FORCE to achive same effect.
Thanks to "Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org> for noticing this.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c uses hardcoded "__crc_" prefix for
crc symbols in kernel and modules. The prefix should be replaced by
"MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##__crc_" otherwise there will be warnings when
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX is not NULL.
I am sorry my last patch for this issue is actually wrong. I revert
it in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases. It breaks automatic loading of any
dasd module.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The kbuild system takes advantage of an incorrect behavior in GNU make.
Once this behavior is fixed, all files in the kernel rebuild every time,
even if nothing has changed. This patch ensures kbuild works with both
the incorrect and correct behaviors of GNU make.
For more details on the incorrect behavior, see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2006-03/msg00003.html
Changes in this patch:
- Keep all targets that are to be marked .PHONY in a variable, PHONY.
- Add .PHONY: $(PHONY) to mark them properly.
- Remove any $(PHONY) files from the $? list when determining whether
targets are up-to-date or not.
Signed-off-by: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
Which gives much better hint how to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When searching for symbols the only check performed was if
offset equals st_value. Adding an additional check to see if st_name
points t a valid name made us sort out a few more false positives and
let us report more correct names in warnings.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Building an allmodconfig kernel for ppc64 revealed a number of false
positives - originally reported by Andrew Morton.
This patch removes most if not all false positives for ppc64:
Section .opd
The .opd section contains function descriptors at least for ppc64.
So ignore it for .init.text (was ignored for .exit.text).
See description of function descriptors here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html
Section .toc1
ppc64 places some static variables in .toc1 - ignore the.
Section __bug_tabe
BUG() and friends uses __bug_table. Ignore warnings from that section.
Module parameters are placed in .data.rel for ppc64, for adjust pattern to
match on section named .data*
Tested with gcc: 3.4.0 and binutils 2.15.90.0.3
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
'allnoconfig' is described by 'make help' as a "minimal config", that's not
strictly correct. To be pedantic, a minimal config would be one where
EMBEDDED was set to Y and most things therein disabled etc. Simply
answering 'no' to all options does not give a minimal config.
A better description of allnoconfig is that it answers all options with 'no'.
This patch updates the description.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Using the fixed path to /usr/bin/{nm,objdump} does not allow
CROSS_COMPILE environments to use namespace.pl. This patch causes
namespace.pl to use $NM and $OBJDUMP if defined or fall back to the nm
and objdump found in the path.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Brooks <aaron.brooks@sicortex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
In several cases the section mismatch check triggered false warnings.
Following patch introduce a whitelist to 'false positives' are not warned of.
Two types of patterns are recognised:
1) Typical case when a module parameter is _initdata
2) When a function pointer is assigned to a driver structure
In both patterns we rely on the actual name of the variable assigned
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
It seems popular to protect your work with copyright, so I decided to do
so for modpost which I patch a great deal atm.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Andrew Morton reported a number of false positives for ia64 - like these:
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind.init.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .IA_64.unwind.exit.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind after '' (at offset 0x1e8)
They are all false positives - or at least the .c code looks OK.
It is not known why sometimes a section name is appended and sometimes not.
Fix is to accept references from all sections that includes "unwind." in the name.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher. But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to. Fixes my ia64 problem.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
A combination of calling modpost with option -a and MODVERDIR undefined
caused segmentation fault. So provide a default value and accept the
error messages it generates instead.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
checkconfig.pl is no longer needed now that autoconf.h is automatically
included. Remove it and all references to it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
With the current way of generating the Makefile in the output directory
for builds outside of the source tree, specifying real targets (rather
than phony ones) doesn't work in an already (partially) built tree, as
the stub Makefile doesn't have any dependency information available.
Thus, all targets where files may actually exist must be listed
explicitly and, due to what I'd call a make misbehavior, directory
targets must then also be special cased.
Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
While the recent change to also escape # symbols when storing C-file
compilation command lines was helpful, it should be in effect for all
command lines, as much as the dollar escaping should be in effect for
C-source compilation commands. Additionally, for better readability and
maintenance, consolidating all the escaping (single quotes, dollars,
and now sharps) was also desirable.
Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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>
Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.
.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.
The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.
Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Randy Dunlap