Move the final link of vmlinux to a script to improve
readability and maintainability of the code.
The Makefile fragments used to link vmlinux has over the
years seen far too many changes and the logic had become
hard to follow.
As the process by nature is serialized there was
nothing gained including this in the Makefile.
"um" has special link requirments - and the
only way to handle this was to hard-code the linking
of "um" in the script.
This was better than trying to modularize it only for the
benefit of "um" anyway.
The shell script has been improved after input from:
Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
sparc32 uses an additional final link to support btfix.
Introduce a new set of exported variables in the top-level Makefile
to make the extra linking step simpler.
sparc32 has hardcoded knowledge of kallsyms support. This fix
include support for EXTRA_KALLSYM_PASS=1.
The ugly part is that it is hardcoded in the arch/sparc/boot
Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
ARCH is never set to m68knomm.
make ARCH=m68knomm is not supported anymore.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shao <laface.tw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.
Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Now you can do
$ make tools/<toolname>
from the toplevel kernel directory and have the respective tool built.
If you want to build and install it, do
$ make tools/<toolname>_install
$ make tools/<toolname>_clean
should clean the respective tool directories.
If you want to clean all in tools, simply do
$ make tools/clean
Also, if you want to get what the possible targets are, simply calling
$ make tools/
should give you the short help.
$ make tools/install
installs all tools, of course. Doh.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334162178-17152-6-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Break a few lines that go way over the usual 80 column limit that we prefer.
Also adjust the placement of a few line continuations.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- Unification of cmd_uimage among archs that use it
- make headers_check tries harder before reporting a missing
<linux/types.h> include
- kbuild portability fix for shells that do not support echo -e
- make clean descends into samples/
- setlocalversion grep fix
- modpost typo fix
- dtc warnings fix
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
setlocalversion: Use "grep -q" instead of piping output to "read dummy"
modpost: fix ALL_INIT_DATA_SECTIONS
Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions
headers_check: recursively search for linux/types.h inclusion
scripts/Kbuild.include: Fix portability problem of "echo -e"
scripts: dtc: fix compile warnings
kbuild: clean up samples directory
kbuild: disable -Wmissing-field-initializers for W=1
Add a config option to disable various gcc compiler optimizations that
make assembler listings much harder to read. This is everything that reorders
code significantly or creates partial functions.
This is mainly to keep kernel hackers sane.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332960678-11879-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Playing around with make randconfig I ended up with CONFIG_SAMPLES
set. After cleaning up the build I noticed that git status was
showing samples/hidraw/hid-example as an untracked file.
Adding samples to clean-dirs seems to solve the problem, but
I don't know if that is the correct way to solve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Gerard Snitselaar <dev@snitselaar.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h
x86, um: Fix typo in 32-bit system call modifications
um: Use $(srctree) not $(KBUILD_SRC)
x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly
x86, um: Use the same style generated syscall tables as native
um: Generate headers before generating user-offsets.s
um: Run host archheaders, allow use of host generated headers
kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly
x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic
x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in comment
x86: Simplify syscallhdr.sh
x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables
checksyscalls: Use arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl as source
x86: Machine-readable syscall tables and scripts to process them
trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c
x86-64, ia32: Move compat_ni_syscall into C and its own file
x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo
kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target
kbuild: Add support for installing generated asm headers
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Kbuild: Use dtc's -d (dependency) option
dtc: Implement -d option to write out a dependency file
kbuild: Fix comment in Makefile.lib
scripts/genksyms: clean lex/yacc generated files
kbuild: Correctly deal with make options which contain an "s"
When using remake, which is based on gnumake, if you invoke
an example build as shown below, the build will become silent
due to the top level make file incorrectly guessing that
the end user wants a silent build because an argument that
contained an "s" was used. Here are two examples one with remake
and one with straight gnumake.
remake --no-extended-errors
make --warn-undefined-variables
Fix up the top level Makefile to use filter to parse the options
that mean silent instead of findstring catching other random
arguments containing an "s".
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Add support for an "archheaders" target. This target can generate
files that need to be installed for user space by "make
headers_install" or "make headers_install_all".
In order to support "make headers_install_all", it must be able to run
without the tree having to be configured first.
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
.. with new name. Because nothing says "really solid kernel release"
like naming it after an extinct animal that just happened to be in the
news lately.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Kbuild: append missing-syscalls to the default target list
genksyms: Regenerate lexer and parser
genksyms: Do not expand internal types
genksyms: Minor parser cleanup
Makefile: remove a duplicated line
fixdep: fix extraneous dependencies
scripts/Makefile.build: do not reference EXTRA_CFLAGS as CFLAGS replacement
kbuild: prevent make from deleting _shipped files
kbuild: Do not delete empty files in make distclean
There are two duplicated lines for 'make RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 [targets]'
in 'make help', remove the second one.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Commit 3d64b44 introduced an empty file under
arch/arm/mach-zynq/board_dt.c. While this was not intended and the file
was removed from the tree by a later commit, we really should only match
junk files by known name patterns and not their size.
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (25 commits)
kconfig: Introduce IS_ENABLED(), IS_BUILTIN() and IS_MODULE()
xconfig: Abort close if configuration cannot be saved
kconfig: fix missing "0x" prefix from S_HEX symbol in autoconf.h
kconfig/nconf: remove useless conditionnal
kconfig/nconf: prevent segfault on empty menu
kconfig/nconf: use the generic menu_get_ext_help()
nconfig: Avoid Wunused-but-set warning
kconfig/conf: mark xfgets() private
kconfig: remove pending prototypes for kconfig_load()
kconfig/conf: add command line options' description
kconfig/conf: reduce the scope of `defconfig_file'
kconfig: use calloc() for expr allocation
kconfig: introduce specialized printer
kconfig: do not overwrite symbol direct dependency in assignment
kconfig/gconf: silent missing prototype warnings
kconfig/gconf: kill deadcode
kconfig: nuke LKC_DIRECT_LINK cruft
kconfig: nuke reference to SWIG
kconfig: add missing <stdlib.h> inclusion
kconfig: add missing <ctype.h> inclusion
...
Fix up conflicts in scripts/kconfig/Makefile
Replace the config_is_*() macros with a variant that allows for grepping
for usage of CONFIG_* options in the code. Usage:
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA))
or
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA)
The IS_ENABLED() macro evaluates to 1 if the argument is set (to either 'y'
or 'm'), IS_BUILTIN() tests if the option is 'y' and IS_MODULE() test if
the option is 'm'. Only boolean and tristate options are supported.
Reviewed-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (123 commits)
perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the oprofile_perf backend
x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function
perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check
x86, perf: P4 PMU - Fix typos in comments and style cleanup
perf tools: Make test use the preset debugfs path
perf tools: Add automated tests for events parsing
perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function
perf script: Fix display of IP address for non-callchain path
perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file header
perf tools: Add missing 'node' alias to the hw_cache[] array
perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules
perf probe: Add probed module in front of function
perf probe: Introduce debuginfo to encapsulate dwarf information
perf-probe: Move dwarf library routines to dwarf-aux.{c, h}
perf probe: Remove redundant dwarf functions
perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c
perf probe: Rename DIE_FIND_CB_FOUND to DIE_FIND_CB_END
tracing/kprobe: Update symbol reference when loading module
tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing
kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist
...
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell
perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
The script has the executable bit in git, but plain old patch(1) can't
create executable files.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile
kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions
kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script
kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
expr treats all numbers as decimals, so prepending a zero is safe. Note
that the KERNEL_VERSION() macro still takes three arguments, 3.0 has to be
written as KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,0).
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
.. except there are various scripts that really know that there are
three numbers, so it calls itself "3.0.0-rc1".
Hopefully by the time the final 3.0 is out, we'll have that extra zero
all figured out.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h>
arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
...
With this change, you can (and should) build with ARCH=tilepro for the
current 32-bit chips. Building with ARCH=tile continues to work, but
we've renamed the defconfig file to tilepro_defconfig for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
export_report: use warn() to issue WARNING, so they go to stderr
export_report: sort SECTION 2 output
export_report: do collectcfiles work in perl itself
kbuild: make versioncheck work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: make includecheck work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: make headerdep work in KBUILD_OUTDIR
kbuild: add targets to PHONY
kbuild: don't warn about include/linux/version.h not including itself
eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o
scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Convert to a /bin/sh script
kbuild: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility
kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+
kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c
kbuild: Fix Makefile.asm-generic for um
kbuild: Allow to combine multiple W= levels
kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0
Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name
kbuild: asm-generic support
kbuild: implement several W= levels
kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
kbuild: Drop unused LINUX_COMPILE_TIME and LINUX_COMPILE_DOMAIN macros
kbuild: Use the deterministic mode of ar
kbuild: Call gzip with -n
kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation
Fix up trivial conflict in Makefile
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
...
When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This support was partially present in the existing code (look for
"__tilegx__" ifdefs) but with this change you can build a working
kernel using the TILE-Gx toolchain and ARCH=tilegx.
Most of these files are new, generally adding a foo_64.c file
where previously there was just a foo_32.c file.
The ARCH=tilegx directive redirects to arch/tile, not arch/tilegx,
using the existing SRCARCH mechanism in the top-level Makefile.
Changes to existing files:
- <asm/bitops.h> and <asm/bitops_32.h> changed to factor the
include of <asm-generic/bitops/non-atomic.h> in the common header.
- <asm/compat.h> and arch/tile/kernel/compat.c changed to remove
the "const" markers I had put on compat_sys_execve() when trying
to match some recent similar changes to the non-compat execve.
It turns out the compat version wasn't "upgraded" to use const.
- <asm/opcode-tile_64.h> and <asm/opcode_constants_64.h> were
previously included accidentally, with the 32-bit contents. Now
they have the proper 64-bit contents.
Finally, I had to hack the existing hacky drivers/input/input-compat.h
to add yet another "#ifdef" for INPUT_COMPAT_TEST (same as x86_64).
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> [drivers/input]
This patch fixes the versioncheck target so it works when make is
invoked in KBUILD_OUTDIR.
Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch fixes the includecheck target so it works when make is
invoked in KBUILD_OUTDIR.
Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch fixes the headerdep target so it works when make is invoked
in KBUILD_OUTDIR.
Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch adds some targets to PHONY so they are built even if a file
with the same name exists.
Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
According to Documentation/Changes, the kernel should be buildable with
GNU make 3.80+. Commit 88d7be031f (kbuild:
Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules) introduced the
"$(or" construct, which requires make 3.81. This causes "make clean" to
malfunction when it is used with external modules.
Replace "$(or" with an equivalent "$(if" expression, to restore backward
compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Starting with 4.4, gcc will happily accept -Wno-<anything> in the
cc-option test and complain later when compiling a file that has some
other warning. This rather unexpected behavior is intentional as per
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR28322, so work around it by testing for support of
the opposite option (without the no-). Introduce a new Makefile function
cc-disable-warning that does this and update two uses of cc-option in
the toplevel Makefile.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Add support for make W=12, make W=123 and so on, to enable warnings from
multiple W= levels. Normally, make W=<level> does not include warnings
from the previous level.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Disable the new -Wunused-but-set-variable that was added in gcc 4.6.0
It produces more false positives than useful warnings.
This can still be enabled using W=1
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Tested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
There is an increasing amount of header files
shared between individual architectures in asm-generic.
To avoid a lot of dummy wrapper files that just
include the corresponding file in asm-generic provide
some basic support in kbuild for this.
With the following patch an architecture can maintain
a list of files in the file arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild
To use a generic file just add:
generic-y += <name-of-header-file.h>
For each file listed kbuild will generate the necessary
wrapper in arch/$(ARCH)/include/generated/asm.
When installing userspace headers a wrapper is likewise created.
The original inspiration for this came from the unicore32
patchset - although a different method is used.
The patch includes several improvements from Arnd Bergmann.
Michael Marek contributed Makefile.asm-generic.
Remis Baima did an intial implementation along to achive
the same - see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/13352/
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Building a kernel with "make W=1" produces far too much noise to be
useful.
Divide the warning options in three groups:
W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
When building the whole kernel, those levels produce:
W=1 - 4859 warnings
W=2 - 1394 warnings
W=3 - 86666 warnings
respectively. Warnings have been counted with Geert's script at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geert/linux-log/linux-log-summary.pl
Many warnings occur from .h files so fixing one file may have a nice
effect on the total number of warnings.
With these changes I am actually tempted to try W=1 now and then.
Previously there was just too much noise.
Borislav:
- make the W= levels exclusive
- move very noisy and making little sense for the kernel warnings to W=3
- drop -Woverlength-strings due to useless warning message
- copy explanatory text for the different warning levels to 'make help'
- recount warnings per level
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
At the moment we have the CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS Kconfig switch,
which users can enable or disable while configuring the kernel. This
option is then used by 'make' to determine whether an extra kallsyms
pass is needed or not.
However, this approach is not nice and confusing, and this patch moves
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile instead. The
rationale is below.
1. CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is really about the build time, not
run-time. There is no real need for it to be in Kconfig. It is
just an additional work-around which should be used only in rare
cases, when someone breaks kallsyms, so Kbuild/Makefile is much
better place for this option.
2. Grepping CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS shows that many defconfigs have
it enabled, probably not because they try to work-around a kallsyms
bug, but just because the Kconfig help text is confusing and does
not really make it clear that this option should not be used unless
except when kallsyms is broken.
3. And since many people have CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS enabled in
their Kconfig, we do might fail to notice kallsyms bugs in time. E.g.,
many testers use "make allyesconfig" to test builds, which will enable
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS and kallsyms breakage will not be noticed.
To address that, this patch:
1. Kills CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
2. Changes Makefile so that people can use "make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1"
to enable the extra pass if needed. Additionally, they may define
KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS as an environment variable.
3. By default KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is disabled and if kallsyms has issues,
"make" should print a warning and suggest using KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
[mmarek: Removed make help text, is not necessary]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Linus Torvalds