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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/dontdiff, branch v5.7-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file</title>
<updated>2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-29T12:38:07+00:00</published>
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The modpost, with the -d option given, generates per-module .ns_deps
files.

Kbuild generates per-module .mod files to carry module information.
This is convenient because Make handles multiple jobs in parallel
when the -j option is given.

On the other hand, the modpost always runs as a single thread.
I do not see a strong reason to produce separate .ns_deps files.

This commit changes the modpost to generate just one file,
modules.nsdeps, each line of which has the following format:

  &lt;module_name&gt;: &lt;list of missing namespaces&gt;

Please note it contains *missing* namespaces instead of required ones.
So, modules.nsdeps is empty if the namespace dependency is all good.

This will work more efficiently because spatch will no longer process
already imported namespaces. I removed the '(if needed)' from the
nsdeps log since spatch is invoked only when needed.

This also solves the stale .ns_deps problem reported by Jessica Yu:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/28/467

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
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The modpost, with the -d option given, generates per-module .ns_deps
files.

Kbuild generates per-module .mod files to carry module information.
This is convenient because Make handles multiple jobs in parallel
when the -j option is given.

On the other hand, the modpost always runs as a single thread.
I do not see a strong reason to produce separate .ns_deps files.

This commit changes the modpost to generate just one file,
modules.nsdeps, each line of which has the following format:

  &lt;module_name&gt;: &lt;list of missing namespaces&gt;

Please note it contains *missing* namespaces instead of required ones.
So, modules.nsdeps is empty if the namespace dependency is all good.

This will work more efficiently because spatch will no longer process
already imported namespaces. I removed the '(if needed)' from the
nsdeps log since spatch is invoked only when needed.

This also solves the stale .ns_deps problem reported by Jessica Yu:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/28/467

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T17:19:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T06:17:57+00:00</published>
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While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.

To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.

Later, commit 551559e13af1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.

$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.

Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991

In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.

Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901c5 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.

However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.

To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.

$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.

Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.

I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
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While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.

To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.

Later, commit 551559e13af1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.

$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.

Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991

In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.

Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901c5 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.

However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.

To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.

$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.

Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.

I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T19:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T19:42:50+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:

   - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations

   - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph

   - Various build-script fixes

   - A new document on memory models

   - RST conversion of the live-patching docs

   - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
  docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
  docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
  LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
  LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
  docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
  docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
  docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
  doc:it_IT: translation alignment
  doc: fix typo in PGP guide
  dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
  docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
  docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
  doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
  docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
  doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
  docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
  docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
  docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:

   - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations

   - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph

   - Various build-script fixes

   - A new document on memory models

   - RST conversion of the live-patching docs

   - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
  docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
  docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
  LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
  LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
  docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
  docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
  docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
  doc:it_IT: translation alignment
  doc: fix typo in PGP guide
  dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
  docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
  docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
  doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
  docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
  doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
  docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
  docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
  docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T19:25:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T19:25:12+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - allow users to invoke 'make' out of the source tree

 - refactor scripts/mkmakefile

 - deprecate KBUILD_SRC, which was used to track the source tree
   location for O= build.

 - fix recordmcount.pl in case objdump output is localized

 - turn unresolved symbols in external modules to errors from warnings
   by default; pass KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN=1 to get them back to warnings

 - generate modules.builtin.modinfo to collect .modinfo data from
   built-in modules

 - misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (21 commits)
  .gitignore: add more all*.config patterns
  moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file
  Remove MODULE_ALIAS() calls that take undefined macro
  .gitignore: add leading and trailing slashes to generated directories
  scripts/tags.sh: fix direct execution of scripts/tags.sh
  scripts: override locale from environment when running recordmcount.pl
  samples: kobject: allow CONFIG_SAMPLE_KOBJECT to become y
  samples: seccomp: turn CONFIG_SAMPLE_SECCOMP into a bool option
  kbuild: move Documentation to vmlinux-alldirs
  kbuild: move samples/ to KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS
  modpost: make KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN also configurable for external modules
  kbuild: check arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated before out-of-tree build
  kbuild: remove unneeded dependency for include/config/kernel.release
  memory: squash drivers/memory/Makefile.asm-offsets
  kbuild: use $(srctree) instead of KBUILD_SRC to check out-of-tree build
  kbuild: mkmakefile: generate a simple wrapper of top Makefile
  kbuild: mkmakefile: do not check the generated Makefile marker
  kbuild: allow Kbuild to start from any directory
  kbuild: pass $(MAKECMDGOALS) to sub-make as is
  kbuild: fix warning "overriding recipe for target 'Makefile'"
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - allow users to invoke 'make' out of the source tree

 - refactor scripts/mkmakefile

 - deprecate KBUILD_SRC, which was used to track the source tree
   location for O= build.

 - fix recordmcount.pl in case objdump output is localized

 - turn unresolved symbols in external modules to errors from warnings
   by default; pass KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN=1 to get them back to warnings

 - generate modules.builtin.modinfo to collect .modinfo data from
   built-in modules

 - misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (21 commits)
  .gitignore: add more all*.config patterns
  moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file
  Remove MODULE_ALIAS() calls that take undefined macro
  .gitignore: add leading and trailing slashes to generated directories
  scripts/tags.sh: fix direct execution of scripts/tags.sh
  scripts: override locale from environment when running recordmcount.pl
  samples: kobject: allow CONFIG_SAMPLE_KOBJECT to become y
  samples: seccomp: turn CONFIG_SAMPLE_SECCOMP into a bool option
  kbuild: move Documentation to vmlinux-alldirs
  kbuild: move samples/ to KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS
  modpost: make KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN also configurable for external modules
  kbuild: check arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated before out-of-tree build
  kbuild: remove unneeded dependency for include/config/kernel.release
  memory: squash drivers/memory/Makefile.asm-offsets
  kbuild: use $(srctree) instead of KBUILD_SRC to check out-of-tree build
  kbuild: mkmakefile: generate a simple wrapper of top Makefile
  kbuild: mkmakefile: do not check the generated Makefile marker
  kbuild: allow Kbuild to start from any directory
  kbuild: pass $(MAKECMDGOALS) to sub-make as is
  kbuild: fix warning "overriding recipe for target 'Makefile'"
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file</title>
<updated>2019-05-07T12:50:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>gladkov.alexey@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T16:11:14+00:00</published>
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Problem:

When a kernel module is compiled as a separate module, some important
information about the kernel module is available via .modinfo section of
the module.  In contrast, when the kernel module is compiled into the
kernel, that information is not available.

Information about built-in modules is necessary in the following cases:

1. When it is necessary to find out what additional parameters can be
passed to the kernel at boot time.

2. When you need to know which module names and their aliases are in
the kernel. This is very useful for creating an initrd image.

Proposal:

The proposed patch does not remove .modinfo section with module
information from the vmlinux at the build time and saves it into a
separate file after kernel linking. So, the kernel does not increase in
size and no additional information remains in it. Information is stored
in the same format as in the separate modules (null-terminated string
array). Because the .modinfo section is already exported with a separate
modules, we are not creating a new API.

It can be easily read in the userspace:

$ tr '\0' '\n' &lt; modules.builtin.modinfo
ext4.softdep=pre: crc32c
ext4.license=GPL
ext4.description=Fourth Extended Filesystem
ext4.author=Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
ext4.alias=fs-ext4
ext4.alias=ext3
ext4.alias=fs-ext3
ext4.alias=ext2
ext4.alias=fs-ext2
md_mod.alias=block-major-9-*
md_mod.alias=md
md_mod.description=MD RAID framework
md_mod.license=GPL
md_mod.parmtype=create_on_open:bool
md_mod.parmtype=start_dirty_degraded:int
...

Co-Developed-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Problem:

When a kernel module is compiled as a separate module, some important
information about the kernel module is available via .modinfo section of
the module.  In contrast, when the kernel module is compiled into the
kernel, that information is not available.

Information about built-in modules is necessary in the following cases:

1. When it is necessary to find out what additional parameters can be
passed to the kernel at boot time.

2. When you need to know which module names and their aliases are in
the kernel. This is very useful for creating an initrd image.

Proposal:

The proposed patch does not remove .modinfo section with module
information from the vmlinux at the build time and saves it into a
separate file after kernel linking. So, the kernel does not increase in
size and no additional information remains in it. Information is stored
in the same format as in the separate modules (null-terminated string
array). Because the .modinfo section is already exported with a separate
modules, we are not creating a new API.

It can be easily read in the userspace:

$ tr '\0' '\n' &lt; modules.builtin.modinfo
ext4.softdep=pre: crc32c
ext4.license=GPL
ext4.description=Fourth Extended Filesystem
ext4.author=Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
ext4.alias=fs-ext4
ext4.alias=ext3
ext4.alias=fs-ext3
ext4.alias=ext2
ext4.alias=fs-ext2
md_mod.alias=block-major-9-*
md_mod.alias=md
md_mod.description=MD RAID framework
md_mod.license=GPL
md_mod.parmtype=create_on_open:bool
md_mod.parmtype=start_dirty_degraded:int
...

Co-Developed-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts</title>
<updated>2019-04-30T12:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-29T14:53:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add generated *conf-cfg files.

Commit 694c49a7c01c ("kconfig: drop localization support") removed
"gconf.glade.h" and "kxgettext".

"kconfig" and "lxdialog" should not be excluded either.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add generated *conf-cfg files.

Commit 694c49a7c01c ("kconfig: drop localization support") removed
"gconf.glade.h" and "kxgettext".

"kconfig" and "lxdialog" should not be excluded either.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h</title>
<updated>2019-04-28T17:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-28T17:45:36+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
scripts/mkutf8data is used only when regenerating utf8data.h,
which never happens in the normal kernel build. However, it is
irrespectively built if CONFIG_UNICODE is enabled.

Moreover, there is no good reason for it to reside in the scripts/
directory since it is only used in fs/unicode/.

Hence, move it from scripts/ to fs/unicode/.

In some cases, we bypass build artifacts in the normal build. The
conventional way to do so is to surround the code with ifdef REGENERATE_*.

For example,

 - 7373f4f83c71 ("kbuild: add implicit rules for parser generation")
 - 6aaf49b495b4 ("crypto: arm,arm64 - Fix random regeneration of S_shipped")

I rewrote the rule in a more kbuild'ish style.

In the normal build, utf8data.h is just shipped from the check-in file.

$ make
  [ snip ]
  SHIPPED fs/unicode/utf8data.h
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-norm.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-core.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-selftest.o
  AR      fs/unicode/built-in.a

If you want to generate utf8data.h based on UCD, put *.txt files into
fs/unicode/, then pass REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 from the command line.
The mkutf8data tool will be automatically compiled to generate the
utf8data.h from the *.txt files.

$ make REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1
  [ snip ]
  HOSTCC  fs/unicode/mkutf8data
  GEN     fs/unicode/utf8data.h
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-norm.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-core.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-selftest.o
  AR      fs/unicode/built-in.a

I renamed the check-in utf8data.h to utf8data.h_shipped so that this
will work for the out-of-tree build.

You can update it based on the latest UCD like this:

$ make REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 fs/unicode/
$ cp fs/unicode/utf8data.h fs/unicode/utf8data.h_shipped

Also, I added entries to .gitignore and dontdiff.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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scripts/mkutf8data is used only when regenerating utf8data.h,
which never happens in the normal kernel build. However, it is
irrespectively built if CONFIG_UNICODE is enabled.

Moreover, there is no good reason for it to reside in the scripts/
directory since it is only used in fs/unicode/.

Hence, move it from scripts/ to fs/unicode/.

In some cases, we bypass build artifacts in the normal build. The
conventional way to do so is to surround the code with ifdef REGENERATE_*.

For example,

 - 7373f4f83c71 ("kbuild: add implicit rules for parser generation")
 - 6aaf49b495b4 ("crypto: arm,arm64 - Fix random regeneration of S_shipped")

I rewrote the rule in a more kbuild'ish style.

In the normal build, utf8data.h is just shipped from the check-in file.

$ make
  [ snip ]
  SHIPPED fs/unicode/utf8data.h
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-norm.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-core.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-selftest.o
  AR      fs/unicode/built-in.a

If you want to generate utf8data.h based on UCD, put *.txt files into
fs/unicode/, then pass REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 from the command line.
The mkutf8data tool will be automatically compiled to generate the
utf8data.h from the *.txt files.

$ make REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1
  [ snip ]
  HOSTCC  fs/unicode/mkutf8data
  GEN     fs/unicode/utf8data.h
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-norm.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-core.o
  CC      fs/unicode/utf8-selftest.o
  AR      fs/unicode/built-in.a

I renamed the check-in utf8data.h to utf8data.h_shipped so that this
will work for the out-of-tree build.

You can update it based on the latest UCD like this:

$ make REGENERATE_UTF8DATA=1 fs/unicode/
$ cp fs/unicode/utf8data.h fs/unicode/utf8data.h_shipped

Also, I added entries to .gitignore and dontdiff.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz</title>
<updated>2019-03-08T02:32:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T00:29:53+00:00</published>
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This slightly optimizes the kernel/configs.c build.

bin2c is not very efficient because it converts a data file into a huge
array to embed it into a *.c file.

Instead, we can use the .incbin directive.

Also, this simplifies the code; Makefile is cleaner, and the way to get
the offset/size of the config_data.gz is more straightforward.

I used the "asm" statement in *.c instead of splitting it into *.S
because MODULE_* tags are not supported in *.S files.

I also cleaned up kernel/.gitignore; "config_data.gz" is unneeded
because the top-level .gitignore takes care of the "*.gz" pattern.

[yamada.masahiro@socionext.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550108893-21226-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549941160-8084-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This slightly optimizes the kernel/configs.c build.

bin2c is not very efficient because it converts a data file into a huge
array to embed it into a *.c file.

Instead, we can use the .incbin directive.

Also, this simplifies the code; Makefile is cleaner, and the way to get
the offset/size of the config_data.gz is more straightforward.

I used the "asm" statement in *.c instead of splitting it into *.S
because MODULE_* tags are not supported in *.S files.

I also cleaned up kernel/.gitignore; "config_data.gz" is unneeded
because the top-level .gitignore takes care of the "*.gz" pattern.

[yamada.masahiro@socionext.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550108893-21226-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549941160-8084-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove gperf usage from toolchain</title>
<updated>2017-08-19T18:02:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-19T17:17:02+00:00</published>
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It turns out that gperf-3.1 changed types in the generated code in ways
that aren't even trivially detectable without having to generate a test-file.

It's just not worth using tools and libraries from clowns that don't
understand or care about compatibility.  So get rid of gperf.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It turns out that gperf-3.1 changed types in the generated code in ways
that aren't even trivially detectable without having to generate a test-file.

It's just not worth using tools and libraries from clowns that don't
understand or care about compatibility.  So get rid of gperf.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T18:46:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T18:46:59+00:00</published>
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Pull GCC plugin updates from Kees Cook:
 "The big part is the randstruct plugin infrastructure.

  This is the first of two expected pull requests for randstruct since
  there are dependencies in other trees that would be easier to merge
  once those have landed. Notably, the IPC allocation refactoring in
  -mm, and many trivial merge conflicts across several trees when
  applying the __randomize_layout annotation.

  As a result, it seemed like I should send this now since it is
  relatively self-contained, and once the rest of the trees have landed,
  send the annotation patches. I'm expecting the final phase of
  randstruct (automatic struct selection) will land for v4.14, but if
  its other tree dependencies actually make it for v4.13, I can send
  that merge request too.

  Summary:

  - typo fix in Kconfig (Jean Delvare)

  - randstruct infrastructure"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  ARM: Prepare for randomized task_struct
  randstruct: Whitelist NIU struct page overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist big_key path struct overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist UNIXCB cast
  randstruct: Whitelist struct security_hook_heads cast
  gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin
  Fix English in description of GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
  compiler: Add __designated_init annotation
  gcc-plugins: Detail c-common.h location for GCC 4.6
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Pull GCC plugin updates from Kees Cook:
 "The big part is the randstruct plugin infrastructure.

  This is the first of two expected pull requests for randstruct since
  there are dependencies in other trees that would be easier to merge
  once those have landed. Notably, the IPC allocation refactoring in
  -mm, and many trivial merge conflicts across several trees when
  applying the __randomize_layout annotation.

  As a result, it seemed like I should send this now since it is
  relatively self-contained, and once the rest of the trees have landed,
  send the annotation patches. I'm expecting the final phase of
  randstruct (automatic struct selection) will land for v4.14, but if
  its other tree dependencies actually make it for v4.13, I can send
  that merge request too.

  Summary:

  - typo fix in Kconfig (Jean Delvare)

  - randstruct infrastructure"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  ARM: Prepare for randomized task_struct
  randstruct: Whitelist NIU struct page overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist big_key path struct overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist UNIXCB cast
  randstruct: Whitelist struct security_hook_heads cast
  gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin
  Fix English in description of GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
  compiler: Add __designated_init annotation
  gcc-plugins: Detail c-common.h location for GCC 4.6
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