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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 5 |
5 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst index a22024f9175e..9b90efcc3a35 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst @@ -137,15 +137,24 @@ Boot Kernel With a Boot Config ============================== Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added -to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with size, checksum and -12-byte magic word as below. +to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with padding, size, +checksum and 12-byte magic word as below. -[initrd][bootconfig][size(u32)][checksum(u32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] +[initrd][bootconfig][padding][size(le32)][checksum(le32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] + +The size and checksum fields are unsigned 32bit little endian value. + +When the boot configuration is added to the initrd image, the total +file size is aligned to 4 bytes. To fill the gap, null characters +(``\0``) will be added. Thus the ``size`` is the length of the bootconfig +file + padding bytes. The Linux kernel decodes the last part of the initrd image in memory to get the boot configuration data. Because of this "piggyback" method, there is no need to change or -update the boot loader and the kernel image itself. +update the boot loader and the kernel image itself as long as the boot +loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot +loader passes a longer size, the kernel feils to find the bootconfig data. To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file @@ -176,7 +185,8 @@ up to 512 key-value pairs. If keys contains 3 words in average, it can contain 256 key-value pairs. In most cases, the number of config items will be under 100 entries and smaller than 8KB, so it would be enough. If the node number exceeds 1024, parser returns an error even if the file -size is smaller than 32KB. +size is smaller than 32KB. (Note that this maximum size is not including +the padding null characters.) Anyway, since bootconfig command verifies it when appending a boot config to initrd image, user can notice it before boot. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt index 3613c2c8f75d..0968b40aef1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ tcan4x5x: tcan4x5x@0 { spi-max-frequency = <10000000>; bosch,mram-cfg = <0x0 0 0 32 0 0 1 1>; interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>; - interrupts = <14 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; + interrupts = <14 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; device-state-gpios = <&gpio3 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; device-wake-gpios = <&gpio1 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; reset-gpios = <&gpio1 27 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt index cb2385c277d0..285a37c2f189 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with NPC100 NFC controller on I2C2): clock-frequency = <100000>; interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>; - interrupts = <29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; + interrupts = <29 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; enable-gpios = <&gpio0 30 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; firmware-gpios = <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt index 92f399ec22b8..2bd82562ce8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with PN544 on I2C2): clock-frequency = <400000>; interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>; - interrupts = <17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; + interrupts = <17 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; enable-gpios = <&gpio3 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; firmware-gpios = <&gpio3 19 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst index cf3ca236d2cc..21c847890d03 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst @@ -57,9 +57,8 @@ to enable them. :: They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: :: make CC=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \ - OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \ - READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \ - HOSTLD=ld.lld + OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump READELF=llvm-readelf \ + HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar HOSTLD=ld.lld Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass ``LLVM_IAS=1`` to enable it. |