kernel/linux.git/arch/alpha/Makefile, branch v6.12.80

alpha: drop pre-EV56 support

2024-05-06T10:05:00+00:00

All EV4 machines are already gone, and the remaining EV5 based machines all support the slightly more modern EV56 generation as well. Debian only supports EV56 and later. Drop both of these and build kernels optimized for EV56 and higher when the "generic" options is selected, tuning for an out-of-order EV6 pipeline, same as Debian userspace. Since this was the only supported architecture without 8-bit and 16-bit stores, common kernel code no longer has to worry about aligning struct members, and existing workarounds from the block and tty layers can be removed. The alpha memory management code no longer needs an abstraction for the differences between EV4 and EV5+. Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2023/05/msg00009.html Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

kbuild: remove head-y syntax

2022-10-02T09:06:03+00:00

Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux. Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry point. A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script. Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section, which is placed before the normal ".text" section. I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner. I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

kbuild: use more subdir- for visiting subdirectories while cleaning

2021-10-24T04:49:46+00:00

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst suggests to use "archclean" for cleaning arch/$(SRCARCH)/boot/, but it is not a hard requirement. Since commit d92cc4d51643 ("kbuild: require all architectures to have arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kbuild"), we can use the "subdir- += boot" trick for all architectures. This can take advantage of the parallel option (-j) for "make clean". I also cleaned up the comments in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. The "archdep" target no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc)

alpha: move core-y in arch/alpha/Makefile to arch/alpha/Kbuild

2021-05-26T14:11:47+00:00

Use obj-y to clean up Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support

2021-01-22T06:41:34+00:00

The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to the perf interfaces. Remove the old oprofile's architecture specific support. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Acked-by: Robert Richter Acked-by: William Cohen Acked-by: Al Viro Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

kconfig: make arch/*/configs/defconfig the default of KBUILD_DEFCONFIG

2019-06-09T06:08:18+00:00

Until recently, if KBUILD_DEFCONFIG was not set by the arch Makefile, the default path arch/*/defconfig was used. The last users of the default are gone by the following commits: - Commit f3e20ad67b4c ("s390: move arch/s390/defconfig to arch/s390/configs/defconfig") - Commit 986a13769c4b ("alpha: move arch/alpha/defconfig to arch/alpha/configs/defconfig") Let's set arch/*/configs/defconfig as a new default. This saves KBUILD_DEFCONFIG for some architectures. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Catalin Marinas

alpha: move arch/alpha/defconfig to arch/alpha/configs/defconfig

2019-05-18T02:49:55+00:00

As of Linux 5.1, alpha and s390 are the last architectures that have defconfig in arch/*/ instead of arch/*/configs/. $ find arch -name defconfig | sort arch/alpha/defconfig arch/arm64/configs/defconfig arch/csky/configs/defconfig arch/nds32/configs/defconfig arch/riscv/configs/defconfig arch/s390/defconfig The arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig is the hard-coded default in Kconfig, and I want to deprecate it after evacuating the remaining defconfig into the standard location, arch/*/configs/. Define KBUILD_DEFCONFIG like other architectures, and move defconfig into the configs/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley

alpha: generate uapi header and syscall table header files

2018-12-21T16:57:56+00:00

System call table generation script must be run to gener- ate unistd_32.h and syscall_table.h files. This patch will have changes which will invokes the script. This patch will generate unistd_32.h and syscall_table.h files by the syscall table generation script invoked by alpha/Makefile and the generated files against the removed files must be identical. The generated uapi header file will be included in uapi/- asm/unistd.h and generated system call table header file will be included by kernel/systbls.S file. Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS

2018-06-01T02:36:58+00:00

By default, sparse assumes a 64bit machine when compiled on x86-64 and 32bit when compiled on anything else. This can of course create all sort of problems for the other archs, like issuing false warnings ('shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'), or worse, failing to emit legitimate warnings. Fix this by adding the -m32/-m64 flag, depending on CONFIG_64BIT, to CHECKFLAGS in the main Makefile (and so for all archs). Also, remove the now unneeded -m32/-m64 in arch specific Makefiles. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

alpha: makefile: don't enforce small data model for kernel builds

2013-04-07T19:59:30+00:00

Due to all of the goodness being packed into today's kernels, the resulting image isn't as slim as it once was. In light of this, don't pass -msmall-data to gcc, which otherwise results in link failures due to impossible relocations when compiling anything but the most trivial configurations. Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Reviewed-by: Matt Turner Tested-by: Thorsten Kranzkowski Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds