Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds

 - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz

 - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig

 - Fix misuse of extra-y

 - Support DWARF v5 debug info

 - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x
   exceeded the limit

 - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches

 - Minor cleanups of genksyms

 - Minor cleanups of Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits)
  initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m'
  kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory
  kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree
  kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig
  kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config'
  kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option
  kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue()
  kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf()
  kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value()
  Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string
  Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT
  kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig
  kbuild: remove ld-version macro
  scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh
  scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh
  arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables
  arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work
  gen_compile_commands: prune some directories
  kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version
  ...

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py b/scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py
index 8ddb5d099029..b7e9ecf16e56 100755
--- a/scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py
+++ b/scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ _DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL = 'WARNING'
 _FILENAME_PATTERN = r'^\..*\.cmd$'
 _LINE_PATTERN = r'^cmd_[^ ]*\.o := (.* )([^ ]*\.c)$'
 _VALID_LOG_LEVELS = ['DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARNING', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL']
-
+# The tools/ directory adopts a different build system, and produces .cmd
+# files in a different format. Do not support it.
+_EXCLUDE_DIRS = ['.git', 'Documentation', 'include', 'tools']
 
 def parse_arguments():
     """Sets up and parses command-line arguments.
@@ -80,8 +82,14 @@ def cmdfiles_in_dir(directory):
     """
 
     filename_matcher = re.compile(_FILENAME_PATTERN)
+    exclude_dirs = [ os.path.join(directory, d) for d in _EXCLUDE_DIRS ]
+
+    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(directory, topdown=True):
+        # Prune unwanted directories.
+        if dirpath in exclude_dirs:
+            dirnames[:] = []
+            continue
 
-    for dirpath, _, filenames in os.walk(directory):
         for filename in filenames:
             if filename_matcher.match(filename):
                 yield os.path.join(dirpath, filename)