kernel/linux.git/Documentation/kbuild, branch v5.15.209

Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros

2025-12-06T21:09:32+00:00

commit 88b61e3bff93f99712718db785b4aa0c1165f35c upstream. cc-ifversion is GCC specific. Replace it with compiler specific variants. Update the users of cc-ifversion to use these new macros. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/350 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/CAGG=3QWSAUakO42kubrCap8fp-gm1ERJJAYXTnP1iHk_wrH=BQ@mail.gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Bill Wendling Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada [nathan: Backport to 5.15 and eliminate instances of cc-ifversion that did not exist upstream when this change was original created] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kconfig: add warn-unknown-symbols sanity check

2025-03-13T11:50:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7cd343008b967423b06af8f6d3236749c67d12e8 ] Introduce KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS environment variable, which makes Kconfig warn about unknown config symbols. This is especially useful for continuous kernel uprevs when some symbols can be either removed or renamed between kernel releases (which can go unnoticed otherwise). By default KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS generates warnings, which are non-terminal. There is an additional environment variable KCONFIG_WERROR that overrides this behaviour and turns warnings into errors. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Stable-dep-of: a409fc1463d6 ("kconfig: fix memory leak in sym_warn_unmet_dep()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap, ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan), alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig, selftests, ipc, and scripts" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (94 commits) scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc() selftests/memfd: remove unused variable Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init(). kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot() fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group trap: cleanup trap_init() init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() ...

Documentation/llvm: update IRC location

2021-09-08T18:50:26+00:00

This should have been done with commit 91ed3ed0f798 ("MAINTAINERS: update ClangBuiltLinux IRC chat") but I did not realize it was in two separate spots. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210825211823.6406-3-nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/llvm: update mailing list

2021-09-08T18:50:26+00:00

We are now at llvm@lists.linux.dev. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210825211823.6406-2-nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/Makefile.clang: default to LLVM_IAS=1

2021-08-10T00:13:25+00:00

LLVM_IAS=1 controls enabling clang's integrated assembler via -integrated-as. This was an explicit opt in until we could enable assembler support in Clang for more architecures. Now we have support and CI coverage of LLVM_IAS=1 for all architecures except a few more bugs affecting s390 and powerpc. This commit flips the default from opt in via LLVM_IAS=1 to opt out via LLVM_IAS=0. CI systems or developers that were previously doing builds with CC=clang or LLVM=1 without explicitly setting LLVM_IAS must now explicitly opt out via LLVM_IAS=0, otherwise they will be implicitly opted-in. This finally shortens the command line invocation when cross compiling with LLVM to simply: $ make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Documentation/llvm: update CROSS_COMPILE inferencing

2021-08-10T00:13:25+00:00

As noted by Masahiro, document how we can generally infer CROSS_COMPILE (and the more specific details about --target and --prefix) based on ARCH. Change use of env vars to command line parameters. Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2021-04-29T21:32:00+00:00

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Change 'option defconfig' to the environment variable KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST - Refactor tinyconfig without using allnoconfig_y - Remove 'option allnoconfig_y' syntax - Change 'option modules' to 'modules' - Do not use /boot/config-* etc. as base config for cross-compilation - Fix a search bug in nconf - Various code cleanups * tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits) kconfig: refactor .gitignore kconfig: highlight xconfig 'comment' lines with '***' kconfig: highlight gconfig 'comment' lines with '***' kconfig: gconf: remove unused code kconfig: remove unused PACKAGE definition kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle() kconfig: nconf: remove meaningless wattrset() call from show_menu() kconfig: nconf: change set_config_filename() to void function kconfig: nconf: refactor attributes setup code kconfig: nconf: remove unneeded default for menu prompt kconfig: nconf: get rid of (void) casts from wattrset() calls kconfig: nconf: fix NORMAL attributes kconfig: mconf,nconf: remove unneeded '\0' termination after snprintf() kconfig: use /boot/config-* etc. as DEFCONFIG_LIST only for native build kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag kconfig: nconf: fix core dump when searching in empty menu kconfig: lxdialog: A spello fix and a punctuation added kconfig: streamline_config.pl: Couple of typo fixes ...

docs: kbuild: Fix a typo in the file Kconfig.recursion-issue-02

2021-04-24T20:13:56+00:00

s/sematics/semantics/ Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kconfig: change "modules" from sub-option to first-level attribute

2021-04-14T06:22:49+00:00

Now "modules" is the only member of the "option" property. Remove "option", and move "modules" to the top level property. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada