linux-toradex.git/Makefile, branch v5.7-rc2

Linux 5.7-rc2

2020-04-19T21:35:30+00:00

Linux 5.7-rc1

2020-04-12T19:35:55+00:00

kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM

2020-04-08T18:18:21+00:00

As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst implies, building the kernel with a
full set of LLVM tools gets very verbose and unwieldy.

Provide a single switch LLVM=1 to use Clang and LLVM tools instead
of GCC and Binutils. You can pass it from the command line or as an
environment variable.

Please note LLVM=1 does not turn on the integrated assembler. You need
to pass LLVM_IAS=1 to use it. When the upstream kernel is ready for the
integrated assembler, I think we can make it default.

We discussed what we need, and we agreed to go with a simple boolean
flag that switches both target and host tools:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/28/494
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/43

Some items discussed, but not adopted:

- LLVM_DIR

  When multiple versions of LLVM are installed, I just thought supporting
  LLVM_DIR=/path/to/my/llvm/bin/ might be useful.

  CC      = $(LLVM_DIR)clang
  LD      = $(LLVM_DIR)ld.lld
    ...

  However, we can handle this by modifying PATH. So, we decided to not do
  this.

- LLVM_SUFFIX

  Some distributions (e.g. Debian) package specific versions of LLVM with
  naming conventions that use the version as a suffix.

  CC      = clang$(LLVM_SUFFIX)
  LD      = ld.lld(LLVM_SUFFIX)
    ...

  will allow a user to pass LLVM_SUFFIX=-11 to use clang-11 etc.,
  but the suffixed versions in /usr/bin/ are symlinks to binaries in
  /usr/lib/llvm-#/bin/, so this can also be handled by PATH.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor  # build
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers

kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1

2020-04-08T18:18:09+00:00

The 'AS' variable is unused for building the kernel. Only the remaining
usage is to turn on the integrated assembler. A boolean flag is a better
fit for this purpose.

AS=clang was added for experts. So, I replaced it with LLVM_IAS=1,
breaking the backward compatibility.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers

kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y

2020-04-08T15:13:45+00:00

Kbuild supports not only obj-y but also lib-y to list objects linked to
vmlinux.

The difference between them is that all the objects from obj-y are
forcibly linked to vmlinux, whereas the objects from lib-y are linked
as needed; if there is no user of a lib-y object, it is not linked.

lib-y is intended to list utility functions that may be called from all
over the place (and may be unused at all), but it is a problem for
EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Even if there is no call-site in the vmlinux, we need
to keep exported symbols for the use from loadable modules.

Commit 7f2084fa55e6 ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably")
worked around it by linking a dummy object, lib-ksyms.o, which contains
references to all the symbols exported from lib.a in that directory.
It uses the linker script command, EXTERN. Unfortunately, the meaning of
EXTERN of ld.lld is different from that of ld.bfd. Therefore, this does
not work with LD=ld.lld (CBL issue #515).

Anyway, the build rule of lib-ksyms.o is somewhat tricky. So, I want to
get rid of it.

At first, I was thinking of accumulating lib-y objects into obj-y
(or even replacing lib-y with obj-y entirely), but the lib-y syntax
is used beyond the ordinary use in lib/ and arch/*/lib/.

Examples:

 - drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile builds lib.a, which is linked
   into vmlinux in the own way (arm64), or linked to the decompressor
   (arm, x86).

 - arch/alpha/lib/Makefile builds lib.a which is linked not only to
   vmlinux, but also to bootloaders in arch/alpha/boot/Makefile.

 - arch/xtensa/boot/lib/Makefile builds lib.a for use from
   arch/xtensa/boot/boot-redboot/Makefile.

One more thing, adding everything to obj-y would increase the vmlinux
size of allnoconfig (or tinyconfig).

For less impact, I tweaked the destination of lib.a at the top Makefile;
when CONFIG_MODULES=y, lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS, which is
forcibly linked to vmlinux, otherwise lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
as before.

The size impact for normal usecases is quite small since at lease one
symbol in every lib-y object is eventually called by someone. In case
you are intrested, here are the figures.

x86_64_defconfig:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
19566602 5422072 1589328 26578002 1958c52 vmlinux.before
19566932 5422104 1589328 26578364 1958dbc vmlinux.after

The case with the biggest impact is allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y.

ARCH=x86 allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1175162	 254740	1220608	2650510	 28718e	vmlinux.before
1177974	 254836	1220608	2653418	 287cea	vmlinux.after

Hopefully this is still not a big deal. The per-file trimming with the
static library is not so effective after all.

If fine-grained optimization is desired, some architectures support
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which trims dead code per-symbol
basis. When LTO is supported in mainline, even better optimization will
be possible.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/515
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers

kbuild: Enable -Wtautological-compare

2020-04-08T15:13:45+00:00

Currently, we disable -Wtautological-compare, which in turn disables a
bunch of more specific tautological comparison warnings that are useful
for the kernel such as -Wtautological-bitwise-compare. See clang's
documentation below for the other warnings that are suppressed by
-Wtautological-compare. Now that all of the major/noisy warnings have
been fixed, enable -Wtautological-compare so that more issues can be
caught at build time by various continuous integration setups.

-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare is kept disabled under a
normal build but visible at W=1 because there are places in the kernel
where a constant or variable size can change based on the kernel
configuration. These are not fixed in a clean/concise way and the ones
I have audited so far appear to be harmless. It is not a subgroup but
rather just one warning so we do not lose out on much coverage by
default.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/488
Link: http://releases.llvm.org/10.0.0/tools/clang/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wtautological-compare
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42666
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2020-03-31T23:03:39+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Build system:

   - add CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST, which will be useful to define a
     fixed set of export symbols for Generic Kernel Image (GKI)

   - allow to run 'make dt_binding_check' without .config

   - use full schema for checking DT examples in *.yaml files

   - make modpost fail for missing MODULE_IMPORT_NS(), which makes more
     sense because we know the produced modules are never loadable

   - Remove unused 'AS' variable

  Kconfig:

   - sanitize DEFCONFIG_LIST, and remove ARCH_DEFCONFIG from Kconfig
     files

   - relax the 'imply' behavior so that symbols implied by 'y' can
     become 'm'

   - make 'imply' obey 'depends on' in order to make 'imply' really weak

  Misc:

   - add documentation on building the kernel with Clang/LLVM

   - revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc to use optimized strlen()

   - fix warning from deb-pkg builds when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n

   - various script and Makefile cleanups"

* tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  Makefile: Update kselftest help information
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset
  kbuild: add outputmakefile to no-dot-config-targets
  kbuild: remove AS variable
  net: wan: wanxl: refactor the firmware rebuild rule
  net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware
  net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware
  kbuild: add comment about grouped target
  kbuild: add -Wall to KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS
  kconfig: remove unused variable in qconf.cc
  sparc: revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc
  kbuild: refactor Makefile.dtbinst more
  kbuild: compute the dtbs_install destination more simply
  Makefile: disallow data races on gcc-10 as well
  kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency
  kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m
  net: drop_monitor: use IS_REACHABLE() to guard net_dm_hw_report()
  modpost: return error if module is missing ns imports and MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n
  modpost: rework and consolidate logging interface
  kbuild: allow to run dt_binding_check without kernel configuration
  ...

Makefile: Update kselftest help information

2020-03-31T16:05:04+00:00

Update kselftest help information.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Linux 5.6

2020-03-29T22:25:41+00:00

kbuild: add outputmakefile to no-dot-config-targets

2020-03-29T13:37:53+00:00

The target outputmakefile is used to generate a Makefile
for out-of-tree builds and does not depend on the kernel
configuration.

Signed-off-by: David Engraf 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada