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Nick Desaulniers 3519c4d6e0 Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version
Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.

We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time.  Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions.  LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:30:20 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 0bddd227f3 Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement
Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement.

Fixes: 5429ef62bc ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8")
Fixes: 6ec4476ac8 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-08 12:28:44 -07:00
Alexander A. Klimov e7b4311ebc Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/process
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200621133630.46435-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-26 11:19:43 -06:00
Will Deacon 5429ef62bc compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
It is very rare to see versions of GCC prior to 4.8 being used to build
the mainline kernel. These old compilers are also know to have codegen
issues which can lead to silent miscompilation:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145

Raise the minimum GCC version for kernel build to 4.8 and remove some
tautological Kconfig dependencies as a consequence.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-04-15 21:36:20 +01:00
Borislav Petkov 0aa78b105f Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23
The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
According to Arvind:

  binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
          Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
  and after fixing that one, with
          Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve

Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html

Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.

Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
there should be no breakage resulting from this.

For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-04-09 00:02:00 +09:00
Randy Dunlap 599e6f8d3d Documentation: changes.rst: update several outdated project URLs
Update projects URLs in the changes.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a9c3c509-8f30-fcc4-d9e0-b53aeaa89e4f@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-05 10:32:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 237f83dfbe Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Some highlights from this development cycle:

   1) Big refactoring of ipv6 route and neigh handling to support
      nexthop objects configurable as units from userspace. From David
      Ahern.

   2) Convert explored_states in BPF verifier into a hash table,
      significantly decreased state held for programs with bpf2bpf
      calls, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   3) Implement bpf_send_signal() helper, from Yonghong Song.

   4) Various classifier enhancements to mvpp2 driver, from Maxime
      Chevallier.

   5) Add aRFS support to hns3 driver, from Jian Shen.

   6) Fix use after free in inet frags by allocating fqdirs dynamically
      and reworking how rhashtable dismantle occurs, from Eric Dumazet.

   7) Add act_ctinfo packet classifier action, from Kevin
      Darbyshire-Bryant.

   8) Add TFO key backup infrastructure, from Jason Baron.

   9) Remove several old and unused ISDN drivers, from Arnd Bergmann.

  10) Add devlink notifications for flash update status to mlxsw driver,
      from Jiri Pirko.

  11) Lots of kTLS offload infrastructure fixes, from Jakub Kicinski.

  12) Add support for mv88e6250 DSA chips, from Rasmus Villemoes.

  13) Various enhancements to ipv6 flow label handling, from Eric
      Dumazet and Willem de Bruijn.

  14) Support TLS offload in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski, Dirk van
      der Merwe, and others.

  15) Various improvements to axienet driver including converting it to
      phylink, from Robert Hancock.

  16) Add PTP support to sja1105 DSA driver, from Vladimir Oltean.

  17) Add mqprio qdisc offload support to dpaa2-eth, from Ioana
      Radulescu.

  18) Add devlink health reporting to mlx5, from Moshe Shemesh.

  19) Convert stmmac over to phylink, from Jose Abreu.

  20) Add PTP PHC (Physical Hardware Clock) support to mlxsw, from
      Shalom Toledo.

  21) Add nftables SYNPROXY support, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera.

  22) Convert tcp_fastopen over to use SipHash, from Ard Biesheuvel.

  23) Track spill/fill of constants in BPF verifier, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

  24) Support bounded loops in BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

  25) Various page_pool API fixes and improvements, from Jesper Dangaard
      Brouer.

  26) Just like ipv4, support ref-countless ipv6 route handling. From
      Wei Wang.

  27) Support VLAN offloading in aquantia driver, from Igor Russkikh.

  28) Add AF_XDP zero-copy support to mlx5, from Maxim Mikityanskiy.

  29) Add flower GRE encap/decap support to nfp driver, from Pieter
      Jansen van Vuuren.

  30) Protect against stack overflow when using act_mirred, from John
      Hurley.

  31) Allow devmap map lookups from eBPF, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.

  32) Use page_pool API in netsec driver, Ilias Apalodimas.

  33) Add Google gve network driver, from Catherine Sullivan.

  34) More indirect call avoidance, from Paolo Abeni.

  35) Add kTLS TX HW offload support to mlx5, from Tariq Toukan.

  36) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to bnxt_en, from Andy Gospodarek.

  37) Add MPLS manipulation actions to TC, from John Hurley.

  38) Add sending a packet to connection tracking from TC actions, and
      then allow flower classifier matching on conntrack state. From
      Paul Blakey.

  39) Netfilter hw offload support, from Pablo Neira Ayuso"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2080 commits)
  net/mlx5e: Return in default case statement in tx_post_resync_params
  mlx5: Return -EINVAL when WARN_ON_ONCE triggers in mlx5e_tls_resync().
  net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE_MROUTER attribute
  pkt_sched: Include const.h
  net: netsec: remove static declaration for netsec_set_tx_de()
  net: netsec: remove superfluous if statement
  netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support
  net: flow_offload: rename tc_cls_flower_offload to flow_cls_offload
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_is_busy() and use it
  net: sched: remove tcf block API
  drivers: net: use flow block API
  net: sched: use flow block API
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_{priv, incref, decref}()
  net: flow_offload: add list handling functions
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_alloc() and flow_block_cb_free()
  net: flow_offload: rename TCF_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* to FLOW_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_*
  net: flow_offload: rename TC_BLOCK_{UN}BIND to FLOW_BLOCK_{UN}BIND
  net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_setup_simple()
  net: hisilicon: Add an tx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
  net: hisilicon: Add an rx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
  ...
2019-07-11 10:55:49 -07:00
Chang S. Bae 1fb12b35e5 kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21
It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code.

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
2019-06-22 11:38:51 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 9c3c0c2048 isdn: remove isdn4linux
With all isdn4linux hardware drivers gone, this is only a wrapper around
CAPI to support old user space. However, from looking at the mailing
list, it seems that the last time anyone asked about it was in 2014,
when the upgrade from a linux-2.4 installation failed, and mISDN was
suggested as a replacement.

The largest public ISDN network (Deutsche Telekom) was supposed to be
shut down 2018, which must have drastically reduced the number of legacy
installations.

When we last discussed removing i4l in 2016, Karsten Keil suggested
revisiting this in 2018. I guess this is overdue.

Link: http://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2014-October/006165.html
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371
Link: https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2019-05-31 11:13:10 +02:00
Federico Vaga f77af637f2 doc:process: add links where missing
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this
patch I add those missing links.

This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06 10:21:19 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada fd65465b70 kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config
Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
 "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
  location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
  case, pkg-config is useless.  pkg-config is needed only when
  libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
  it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
  where make menuconfig would be possibly run."

For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
for finding the installation paths of the required packages.

Fixes: 4ab3b80159 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2018-09-03 02:13:48 +09:00
Joe Perches cafa0010cd Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6
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>
2018-08-20 14:12:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 01f0e5cded Kconfig updates for v4.19
- 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
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Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

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
2018-08-15 12:50:10 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 4ab3b80159 kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
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>
2018-07-18 01:18:09 +09:00
Randy Dunlap 934193a654 kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a
("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>
2018-07-18 01:18:05 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 3b24b83763 Kbuild updates for v4.17
- 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
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

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
  ...
2018-04-03 15:51:22 -07:00
Martin Kepplinger 86afad7d87 Documentation/process: update FUSE project website
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>
2018-03-29 15:49:18 -06:00
Nicholas Piggin f49821ee32 kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a
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>
2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
Masahiro Yamada 033dba2ec0 kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bison
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 bb3290d916 ("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>
2017-12-16 11:12:53 +09:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab b8b07b5c8d docs-rst: move Sphinx install instructions to sphinx.rst
The toolchain used by Sphinx is somewhat complex, and installing
it should be part of the doc-guide.

Move it out of changes.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 13:18:18 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 212fa2f84d changes.rst: Update Sphinx minimal requirements
The kfigure module doesn't work with Sphinx version 1.2. So,
update the minimal requirements accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-17 13:18:09 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 98ced886dd Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13
Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.
 
 THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
 only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
 intermediate-artifact schemes.
 
 Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
 various advantages:
  - save disk space for builds
  - speed-up building a little
  - fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to
    more flexibility for the final linking
  - work better with dead code elimination we are planning
 
 As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally
 so that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".
 
 With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
 showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now.
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Merge tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.

  THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
  only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
  intermediate-artifact schemes.

  Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
  various advantages:

   - save disk space for builds

   - speed-up building a little

   - fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
     flexibility for the final linking

   - work better with dead code elimination we are planning

  As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
  that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".

  With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
  showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"

* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
  kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
  x86/um: thin archives build fix
  tile: thin archives fix linking
  ia64: thin archives fix linking
  sh: thin archives fix linking
  kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
  kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
  kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
  ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
  tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
  sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs
2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin 799c434154 kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
Make thin archives build the default, but keep the config option
to allow exemptions if any breakage can't be quickly solved.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-06-30 09:03:05 +09:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ff41c41943 docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation
DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update
the obsolete references from it at the DocBook.

Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
Max Filippov 13e0988140 docs: complete bumping minimal GNU Make version to 3.81
Commit 37d69ee308 ("docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81")
changes one entry of GNU make version in the changes.rst, there's still
one more entry saying that one need version 3.80.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-06 18:49:09 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada 37d69ee308 docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81
Since 2014, you can't successfully build kernels with GNU Make version
3.80. Example errors:

  $ git describe
  v4.11
  $ make --version | head -1
  GNU Make 3.80
  $ make defconfig
    HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  scripts/Makefile.host:135: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  make: *** [defconfig] Error 2
  $ make ARCH=arm64 help
  arch/arm64/Makefile:43: *** unterminated call to function `warning': missing `)'.  Stop.
  $ make help >/dev/null
  ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:25: Extraneous text after `else' directive
  ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:31: *** only one `else' per conditional.  Stop.
  make: *** [help] Error 2

The first breakage was introduced by commit c8589d1e9e ("kbuild:
handle multi-objs dependency appropriately").  Since then (i.e. v3.18),
GNU Make 3.80 has not been able to compile the kernel, but nobody has
ever complained aboutt (or noticed) it.

Even GNU Make 3.81 is more than 10 years old.  It would not hurt to
match the documentation with reality instead of fixing makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-06 10:56:27 -07:00
SeongJae Park 3bdadc86dc Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in
documents to use www.kernel.org instead.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-29 15:46:06 -06:00
Markus Heiser db6ccf23e8 docs-rst: automatically convert Graphviz and SVG images
This patch brings scalable figure, image handling and a concept to
embed *render* markups:

* DOT (http://www.graphviz.org)
* SVG

For image handling use the 'image' replacement::

    .. kernel-image::  svg_image.svg
       :alt:    simple SVG image

For figure handling use the 'figure' replacement::

    .. kernel-figure::  svg_image.svg
       :alt:    simple SVG image

       SVG image example

Embed *render* markups (or languages) like Graphviz's **DOT** is
provided by the *render* directive.::

  .. kernel-render:: DOT
     :alt: foobar digraph
     :caption: Embedded **DOT** (Graphviz) code.

     digraph foo {
      "bar" -> "baz";
     }

The *render* directive is a concept to integrate *render* markups and
languages, yet supported markups:

* DOT: render embedded Graphviz's **DOT**
* SVG: render embedded Scalable Vector Graphics (**SVG**)

Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> (v2 - v5)
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> (v1, v6)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-03-09 02:59:26 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 9b4ebd98da docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guide
Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split
the TOC into sections.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 16:37:11 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 186128f753 docs-rst: add documents to development-process
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.

As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00