kernel/linux.git/.gitignore, branch v6.18.22

.gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally

2025-08-12T22:53:55+00:00

compile_commands.json can be used with clangd to enable language server protocol-based assistance. For kernel itself this can be built with scripts/gen_compile_commands.py, but other projects (e.g., libbpf, or BPF selftests) can benefit from their own compilation database file, which can be generated successfully using external tools, like bear [0]. So, instead of adding compile_commands.json to .gitignore in respective individual projects, let's just ignore it globally anywhere in Linux repo. While at it, remove exactly such a local .gitignore rule under tools/power/cpupower. [0] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606214840.3165754-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked

2025-07-02T23:10:04+00:00

The .pylintrc file was introduced by commit 02df8e3b333c ("docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts") to provide Python path configuration for documentation scripts. However, the generic ".*" rule in .gitignore causes this tracked file to be ignored, leading to warnings during kernel builds. Add !.pylintrc to the exception list to explicitly allow this configuration file to be tracked by git, consistent with other development tool configuration files like .clang-format and .rustfmt.toml. This resolves the build warning: .pylintrc: warning: ignored by one of the .gitignore files Fixes: 02df8e3b333c ("docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts") Signed-off-by: WangYuli Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1A357750FF71847E+20250623071933.311947-1-wangyuli@uniontech.com

.gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode

2025-04-24T16:12:46+00:00

While the building system doesn't create any Python JIT bytecode, if one manually runs kernel-doc.py or get_abi.py, Python will, by default, create a bytecode and store it under scripts/lib/*. This is normal, and not controlled by the Kernel itself. So, add *.pyc as an extension to be ignored. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID:

kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved

2025-03-16T15:29:50+00:00

The imperative paradigm used to build vmlinux, extract some info from it or perform some checks on it, and subsequently modify it again goes against the declarative paradigm that is usually employed for defining make rules. In particular, the Makefile.postlink files that consume their input via an output rule result in some dodgy logic in the decompressor makefiles for RISC-V and x86, given that the vmlinux.relocs input file needed to generate the arch-specific relocation tables may not exist or be out of date, but cannot be constructed using the ordinary Make dependency based rules, because the info needs to be extracted while vmlinux is in its ephemeral, non-stripped form. So instead, for architectures that require the static relocations that are emitted into vmlinux when passing --emit-relocs to the linker, and are subsequently stripped out again, introduce an intermediate vmlinux target called vmlinux.unstripped, and organize the reset of the build logic accordingly: - vmlinux.unstripped is created only once, and not updated again - build rules under arch/*/boot can depend on vmlinux.unstripped without running the risk of the data disappearing or being out of date - the final vmlinux generated by the build is not bloated with static relocations that are never needed again after the build completes. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS

2025-01-10T00:01:24+00:00

Because the `macros` crate exposes procedural macros, it must be compiled as a dynamic library (so it can be loaded by the compiler at compile-time). Before this change the resulting artifact was always named `libmacros.so`, which works on hosts where this matches the naming convention for dynamic libraries. However the proper name on macOS would be `libmacros.dylib`. This turns out to matter even when the dependency is passed with a path (`--extern macros=path/to/libmacros.so` rather than `--extern macros`) because rustc uses the file name to infer the type of the library (see link). This is because there's no way to specify both the path to and the type of the external library via CLI flags. The compiler could speculatively parse the file to determine its type, but it does not do so today. This means that libraries that match neither rustc's naming convention for static libraries nor the platform's naming convention for dynamic libraries are *rejected*. The only solution I've found is to follow the host platform's naming convention. This patch does that by querying the compiler to determine the appropriate name for the artifact. This allows the kernel to build with CONFIG_RUST=y on macOS. Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/d829780/compiler/rustc_metadata/src/locator.rs#L728-L752 Tested-by: Daniel Gomez Co-developed-by: Fiona Behrens Signed-off-by: Fiona Behrens Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-b4-dylib-host-macos-v7-1-cfc507681447@gmail.com [ Added `MAKEFLAGS=`s to avoid jobserver warnings. Removed space. Reworded title. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2024-11-30T21:41:50+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add generic support for built-in boot DTB files - Enable TAB cycling for dialog buttons in nconfig - Fix issues in streamline_config.pl - Refactor Kconfig - Add support for Clang's AutoFDO (Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization) - Add support for Clang's Propeller, a profile-guided optimization. - Change the working directory to the external module directory for M= builds - Support building external modules in a separate output directory - Enable objtool for *.mod.o and additional kernel objects - Use lz4 instead of deprecated lz4c - Work around a performance issue with "git describe" - Refactor modpost * tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (85 commits) kbuild: rename .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms to .tmp_vmlinux0.syms gitignore: Don't ignore 'tags' directory kbuild: add dependency from vmlinux to resolve_btfids modpost: replace tdb_hash() with hash_str() kbuild: deb-pkg: add python3:native to build dependency genksyms: reduce indentation in export_symbol() modpost: improve error messages in device_id_check() modpost: rename alias symbol for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() modpost: rename variables in handle_moddevtable() modpost: move strstarts() to modpost.h modpost: convert do_usb_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_of_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_device_entry() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_card_entries() to a generic handler modpost: call module_alias_printf() from all do_*_entry() functions modpost: pass (struct module *) to do_*_entry() functions modpost: remove DEF_FIELD_ADDR_VAR() macro modpost: deduplicate MODULE_ALIAS() for all drivers modpost: introduce module_alias_printf() helper modpost: remove unnecessary check in do_acpi_entry() ...

gitignore: Don't ignore 'tags' directory

2024-11-27T23:46:03+00:00

W=1 builds reported warnings regarding files being ignored: tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/.gitignore: warning: ignored by one of the .gitignore files tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/Makefile: warning: ignored by one of the .gitignore files tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/tags_test.c: warning: ignored by one of the .gitignore files Adjusting the .gitignore entries will prevent these warnings and ensure a smoother script execution. Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

rust: introduce `.clippy.toml`

2024-10-07T19:39:05+00:00

Some Clippy lints can be configured/tweaked. We will use these knobs to our advantage in later commits. This is done via a configuration file, `.clippy.toml` [1]. The file is currently unstable. This may be a problem in the future, but we can adapt as needed. In addition, we proposed adding Clippy to the Rust CI's RFL job [2], so we should be able to catch issues pre-merge. Thus introduce the file. Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/configuration.html [1] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/128928 [2] Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross Tested-by: Gary Guo Reviewed-by: Gary Guo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904204347.168520-12-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2024-09-24T20:02:06+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Support cross-compiling linux-headers Debian package and kernel-devel RPM package - Add support for the linux-debug Pacman package - Improve module rebuilding speed by factoring out the common code to scripts/module-common.c - Separate device tree build rules into scripts/Makefile.dtbs - Add a new script to generate modules.builtin.ranges, which is useful for tracing tools to find symbols in built-in modules - Refactor Kconfig and misc tools - Update Kbuild and Kconfig documentation * tag 'kbuild-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (51 commits) kbuild: doc: replace "gcc" in external module description kbuild: doc: describe the -C option precisely for external module builds kbuild: doc: remove the description about shipped files kbuild: doc: drop section numbering, use references in modules.rst kbuild: doc: throw out the local table of contents in modules.rst kbuild: doc: remove outdated description of the limitation on -I usage kbuild: doc: remove description about grepping CONFIG options kbuild: doc: update the description about Kbuild/Makefile split kbuild: remove unnecessary export of RUST_LIB_SRC kbuild: remove append operation on cmd_ld_ko_o kconfig: cache expression values kconfig: use hash table to reuse expressions kconfig: refactor expr_eliminate_dups() kconfig: add comments to expression transformations kconfig: change some expr_*() functions to bool scripts: move hash function from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/ kallsyms: change overflow variable to bool type kallsyms: squash output_address() kbuild: add install target for modules.builtin.ranges scripts: add verifier script for builtin module range data ...

kbuild: generate offset range data for builtin modules

2024-09-20T00:21:43+00:00

Create file module.builtin.ranges that can be used to find where built-in modules are located by their addresses. This will be useful for tracing tools to find what functions are for various built-in modules. The offset range data for builtin modules is generated using: - modules.builtin: associates object files with module names - vmlinux.map: provides load order of sections and offset of first member per section - vmlinux.o.map: provides offset of object file content per section - .*.cmd: build cmd file with KBUILD_MODFILE The generated data will look like: .text 00000000-00000000 = _text .text 0000baf0-0000cb10 amd_uncore .text 0009bd10-0009c8e0 iosf_mbi ... .text 00b9f080-00ba011a intel_skl_int3472_discrete .text 00ba0120-00ba03c0 intel_skl_int3472_discrete intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 .text 00ba03c0-00ba08d6 intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 ... .data 00000000-00000000 = _sdata .data 0000f020-0000f680 amd_uncore For each ELF section, it lists the offset of the first symbol. This can be used to determine the base address of the section at runtime. Next, it lists (in strict ascending order) offset ranges in that section that cover the symbols of one or more builtin modules. Multiple ranges can apply to a single module, and ranges can be shared between modules. The CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES option controls whether offset range data is generated for kernel modules that are built into the kernel image. How it works: 1. The modules.builtin file is parsed to obtain a list of built-in module names and their associated object names (the .ko file that the module would be in if it were a loadable module, hereafter referred to as ). This object name can be used to identify objects in the kernel compile because any C or assembler code that ends up into a built-in module will have the option -DKBUILD_MODFILE= present in its build command, and those can be found in the ..cmd file in the kernel build tree. If an object is part of multiple modules, they will all be listed in the KBUILD_MODFILE option argument. This allows us to conclusively determine whether an object in the kernel build belong to any modules, and which. 2. The vmlinux.map is parsed next to determine the base address of each top level section so that all addresses into the section can be turned into offsets. This makes it possible to handle sections getting loaded at different addresses at system boot. We also determine an 'anchor' symbol at the beginning of each section to make it possible to calculate the true base address of a section at runtime (i.e. symbol address - symbol offset). We collect start addresses of sections that are included in the top level section. This is used when vmlinux is linked using vmlinux.o, because in that case, we need to look at the vmlinux.o linker map to know what object a symbol is found in. And finally, we process each symbol that is listed in vmlinux.map (or vmlinux.o.map) based on the following structure: vmlinux linked from vmlinux.a: vmlinux.map: -- might be same as top level section) -- built-in association known -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... vmlinux linked from vmlinux.o: vmlinux.map: -- might be same as top level section) vmlinux.o -- need to use vmlinux.o.map -- ignored ... vmlinux.o.map:

-- built-in association known -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... 3. As sections, objects, and symbols are processed, offset ranges are constructed in a straight-forward way: - If the symbol belongs to one or more built-in modules: - If we were working on the same module(s), extend the range to include this object - If we were working on another module(s), close that range, and start the new one - If the symbol does not belong to any built-in modules: - If we were working on a module(s) range, close that range Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Tested-by: Sam James Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada