kernel/linux.git/fs/Kconfig.binfmt, branch v5.15.208

binfmt: remove support for em86 (alpha only)

2021-07-26T05:33:03+00:00

We have a fairly specific alpha binary loader in Linux: running x86 (i386, i486) binaries via the em86 [1] emulator. As noted in the Kconfig option, the same behavior can be achieved via binfmt_misc, for example, more nowadays used for running qemu-user. An example on how to get binfmt_misc running with em86 can be found in Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst The defconfig does not have CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86=y set. And doing a make defconfig && make olddefconfig results in # CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86 is not set ... as we don't seem to have any supported Linux distirbution for alpha anymore, there isn't really any "default" user of that feature anymore. Searching for "CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86=y" reveals mostly discussions from around 20 years ago, like [2] describing how to get netscape via em86 running via em86, or [3] discussing that running wine or installing Win 3.11 through em86 would be a nice feature. The latest binaries available for em86 are from 2000, version 2.2.1 [4] -- which translates to "unsupported"; further, em86 doesn't even work with glibc-2.x but only with glibc-2.0 [4, 5]. These are clear signs that there might not be too many em86 users out there, especially users relying on modern Linux kernels. Even though the code footprint is relatively small, let's just get rid of this blast from the past that's effectively unused. [1] http://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/linux/Linux-Alpha/em86/v0.4/docs/em86.html [2] https://static.lwn.net/1998/1119/a/alpha-netscape.html [3] https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.alpha/c/AkGuQHeCe0Y [4] http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alpha/em86/v2.2-1/relnotes.2.2.1.html [5] https://forum.teamspeak.com/archive/index.php/t-1477.html Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start

2021-04-18T23:56:37+00:00

Commit 2217b9826246 ("binfmt_flat: revert "binfmt_flat: don't offset the data start"") restored offsetting the start of the data section by a number of words defined by MAX_SHARED_LIBS. As a result, since MAX_SHARED_LIBS is never 0, a gap between the text and data sections always exists. For architectures which cannot support a such gap between the text and data sections (e.g. riscv nommu), flat binary programs cannot be executed. To allow an architecture to request no data start offset to allow for contiguous text and data sections for binaries flagged with FLAT_FLAG_RAM, introduce the new config option CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET. Using this new option, the macro DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is conditionally defined in binfmt_flat.c to MAX_SHARED_LIBS for architectures tolerating or needing the data start offset (CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET disabled case) and to 0 when CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET is enabled. DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is used in load_flat_file() to calculate the data section length and start position. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer

Merge branch 'work.elf-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2021-02-21T17:29:23+00:00

Pull ELF compat updates from Al Viro: "Sanitizing ELF compat support, especially for triarch architectures: - X32 handling cleaned up - MIPS64 uses compat_binfmt_elf.c both for O32 and N32 now - Kconfig side of things regularized Eventually I hope to have compat_binfmt_elf.c killed, with both native and compat built from fs/binfmt_elf.c, with -DELF_BITS={64,32} passed by kbuild, but that's a separate story - not included here" * 'work.elf-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: get rid of COMPAT_ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE compat_binfmt_elf: don't bother with undef of ELF_ARCH Kconfig: regularize selection of CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF mips compat: switch to compat_binfmt_elf.c mips: don't bother with ELF_CORE_EFLAGS mips compat: don't bother with ELF_ET_DYN_BASE mips: KVM_GUEST makes no sense for 64bit builds... mips: kill unused definitions in binfmt_elf[on]32.c mips binfmt_elf*32.c: use elfcore-compat.h x32: make X32, !IA32_EMULATION setups able to execute x32 binaries [amd64] clean PRSTATUS_SIZE/SET_PR_FPVALID up properly elf_prstatus: collect the common part (everything before pr_reg) into a struct binfmt_elf: partially sanitize PRSTATUS_SIZE and SET_PR_FPVALID

c6x: remove architecture

2021-01-20T08:30:45+00:00

The c6x architecture was added to the kernel in 2011 at a time when running Linux on DSPs was widely seen as the logical evolution. It appears the trend has gone back to running Linux on Arm based SoCs with DSP, using a better supported software ecosystem, and having better real-time behavior for the DSP code. An example of this is TI's own Keystone2 platform. The upstream kernel port appears to no longer have any users. Mark Salter remained avaialable to review patches, but mentioned that he no longer has access to working hardware himself. Without any users, it's best to just remove the code completely to reduce the work for cross-architecture code changes. Many thanks to Mark for maintaining the code for the past ten years. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/41dc7795afda9f776d8cd0d3075f776cf586e97c.camel@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

Kconfig: regularize selection of CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF

2021-01-06T13:42:49+00:00

with mips converted to use of fs/config_binfmt_elf.c, there's no need to keep selects of that thing all over arch/* - we can simply turn into def_bool y if COMPAT && BINFMT_ELF (in fs/Kconfig.binfmt) and get rid of all selects. Several architectures got those selects wrong (e.g. you could end up with sparc64 sans BINFMT_ELF, with select violating dependencies, etc.) Randy Dunlap has spotted some of those; IMO this is simpler than his fix, but it depends upon the stuff that would need to be backported, so we might end up using his variant for -stable. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances. This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines, I also fixed the indentation. There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---' In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the following commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/' Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Merge tag 'sh-for-5.8' of git://git.libc.org/linux-sh

2020-06-06T22:22:01+00:00

Pull arch/sh updates from Rich Felker: "Fix for arch/sh build regression with newer binutils, removal of SH5, fixes for module exports, and misc cleanup" * tag 'sh-for-5.8' of git://git.libc.org/linux-sh: sh: remove sh5 support sh: add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL() for __delay sh: Convert ins[bwl]/outs[bwl] macros to inline functions sh: Convert iounmap() macros to inline functions sh: Add missing DECLARE_EXPORT() for __ashiftrt_r4_xx sh: configs: Cleanup old Kconfig IO scheduler options arch/sh: vmlinux.scr sh: Replace CONFIG_MTD_M25P80 with CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR in sh7757lcr_defconfig sh: sh4a: Bring back tmu3_device early device

Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-06-01T22:45:27+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I *really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile, those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts. Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots of fixes" * tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits) Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max" docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/ docs: move digsig docs to the security book docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file ...

sh: remove sh5 support

2020-06-01T18:48:52+00:00

sh5 never became a product and has probably never really worked. Remove it by recursively deleting all associated Kconfig options and all corresponding files. Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Rich Felker

docs: filesystems: fix renamed references

2020-04-20T21:45:22+00:00

Some filesystem references got broken by a previous patch series I submitted. Address those. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: David Sterba # fs/affs/Kconfig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57318c53008dbda7f6f4a5a9e5787f4d37e8565a.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet