linux-toradex.git/arch/alpha/boot, branch master

Merge tag 'kbuild-7.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

2026-10-21T20:45:44+00:00

Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
 "Kbuild:

   - Suppress compiler flags in debug info for external module builds

   - Use '-fmacro-prefix-map' in more places in the build

   - Merge initial set of changes from Lorenzo's speed up series, along
     with some fixes found through testing:

     - Avoid allocating .modinfo in vmlinux

     - Speed up kallsyms by indexing symbols by token and outputting
       binary data to disk directly then including in assembly via
       .incbin

     - Don't sort $(NM) output when unnecessary

     - Only emit relocations on the final vmlinx link

     - Reimplement mksysmap in C

     - Move many cc-option and ld-option calls into the Kconfig stage to
       cache their results

     - Use pigz for gzip compression when available

   - Move gen_init_cpio and gen_initramfs.sh from usr/ to scripts/

   - Add a TOML configuration to scripts/container and update
     documentation accordingly

   - Add a generic, opt-in mechanism for checking that headers can
     compile standalone

   - Update machine function splitting argument for LLVM 24 rename in
     AutoFDO build

   - Miscellaneous minor clean ups, fixes, and hardening, mostly
     found/fixed via LLMs

  Kconfig:

   - Turn recursive ranges into an error

   - Fix savedefconfig for defaults that were adjusted for being out of
     range and revert a previously applied workaround

   - Improvements and hardening around integer and hexadecimal values

   - Emit a warning when selecting or implying a choice symbol, which
     has no effect

   - Emit a warning when KCONFIG_PROBABILITY is malformed

   - Introduce def_string / def_int / def_hex to mirror the existing
     def_bool / def_tristate to succinctly set a value and type at the
     same time.

   - Add cc-option-str and ld-option-str macros to act like Kbuild's
     cc-option and ld-option, returning the string when the option is
     supported, allowing many checks to be moved into Kconfig

   - Minor usability improvements to Kconfig tests"

* tag 'kbuild-7.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (59 commits)
  kbuild: AutoFDO: Update split machine function argument for upstream rename
  kbuild: Mark the initcall ordering recipe as recursive
  kbuild: Mark the gzip recipes as recursive
  localmodconfig: Explicitly report boolean configs during integrity check
  scripts/make_fit: Ignore schema checks when decomposing DTBs
  clang-tools: Import os for broken pipe handling
  kconfig: use the value argument in sym_get_near_range_bound()
  kconfig: fix infinite loop in conf_choice() when no choice value is visible
  kconfig: cleanup stale comment about 'keys' array
  kconfig: Improve ergonomics around disabling warnings with cc-option
  scripts/Kconfig.toolchain: Drop compiler symbols from dependencies
  checkkconfigsymbols.py: Parse Git status output line by line
  gen_init_cpio: stop parsing on lines with a missing argument list
  .gitignore: drop Module.markers
  .gitignore: ignore pacman package signatures
  kbuild: add header check facility as a manually run static analyzer
  Documentation: dev-tools: refer to user ID rather than id
  Documentation: dev-tools: update container.rst with config file
  scripts: add TOML config to container tool
  kconfig: tests: {old,save}defconfig: Forward dynamic keyword arguments
  ...

alpha: support the remaining kernel compression formats

2026-10-17T22:44:43+00:00

Nothing about the boot stub is specific to gzip, so wire up bzip2, lz4,
lzma, lzo, xz and zstd as well: select the matching HAVE_KERNEL_*
symbol, add a suffix-y entry and a compression rule for the piggy-backed
image, and include the decompressor into the stub's misc.c.

Only gzip's trailer already carries the uncompressed size, so the other
formats use the _with_size variants; output_len, which vmlinux.scr takes
from the last 4 bytes of the payload, then works for all of them. The
stub passes it to __decompress(), which zstd requires.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261017-alpha-kernel-compression-v2-3-c71e6b08dc63@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm

alpha: add self-extracting compressed kernel boot stub

2026-10-17T22:44:43+00:00

Alpha only ever supported gzip for the kernel image, and did so in a way
out of step with every other architecture: aboot, the disk boot loader,
decompresses vmlinux.gz itself with its own bundled inflate code, so
adding a compression format meant writing a new decompressor inside
aboot as well as in the kernel.

Build a proper self-extracting arch/alpha/boot/compressed/vmlinux
instead, modeled on parisc: a small ELF stub with the real, compressed
vmlinux linked in, which decompresses the kernel, relocates it into
place and jumps to its entry point. aboot needs no changes.

The stub has no sanitizer or coverage runtime and must run on any Alpha,
so it builds private copies of the arch/alpha/lib/ memory and division
routines it needs instead of linking lib.a, whose objects carry the
kernel's instrumentation and -mcpu=.

The build now emits arch/alpha/boot/vmlinuz rather than vmlinux.gz,
which was never a name aboot cared about and would be a lie for an ELF
stub: the bootpz path in the same directory still produces real gzip
data as vmlinux.nh.gz. Existing aboot.conf files name the image as it
was installed in /boot, so only the command that copies it out of the
build tree changes.

Unlike parisc and mips, the stub is linked at START_ADDR rather than at
a separate low address; see compressed/vmlinux.lds.S. It has no console
output, since bringing up the HWRPB console callbacks needs more than
the CRB dispatch the kernel proper does much later, so error() just
halts.

The legacy SRM netboot path (bootpz.c) is left alone: it has its own
boot protocol (PALcode reinitialization, self-populated ZERO_PGE,
build-time-computed image sizes) that does not fit this design without a
separate rewrite, and keeps using plain gzip via vmlinux.nh.gz.

Co-developed-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261017-alpha-kernel-compression-v2-2-c71e6b08dc63@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm

kbuild: Mark the gzip recipes as recursive

2026-10-11T00:20:04+00:00

Since commit 48ebe1cbbeb51 ("kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if
available"), cmd_gzip runs pigz through scripts/jobserver-exec, which
takes the job slots make has free. GNU Make passes the jobserver pipe
only to recipes it treats as recursive, but leaves --jobserver-auth in
MAKEFLAGS for all of them. The make 4.3 in CentOS Stream 9 also hides
the pipe in sub-makes (a backport of the fix for GNU Make bug 58232), so
jobserver-exec cannot open it, runs pigz on one thread, and prints:

  WARNING: Unable to reopen jobserver read-side pipe: FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')

Mark every recipe that can run cmd_gzip as recursive with "+", as
commit ecab4115c44cc ("kbuild: mark `rustc` (and others) invocations as
recursive") did for rustc. Besides the $(call if_changed,gzip) rules,
this covers those that choose gzip through a variable: the built-in
initramfs in usr/Makefile (which rcutorture's kvm.sh builds), the EFI
zboot image, and the arm, csky, and mips compressed images. As with
rustc, "make -n" now runs these recipes, including those that choose
through a variable when they select another compressor. Also update the
gzip entry in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst, as suggested in
review.

Tested with GNU Make 4.3 plus CentOS Stream 9's make-4.3-cloexec.patch,
GCC 16.2.0, and -j64, on ARCH=x86_64, arm64, and arm defconfig, and
ARCH=x86_64 defconfig with a built-in initramfs: none of them prints the
warning, and pigz gets the free job slots (-p 54, 64, and 50 for the
kernel image). Without this change, the x86_64 builds print it for the
kernel image and for the initramfs.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0ddb5e5e-f801-444c-aa98-0cfe814a3026@paulmck-laptop/
Fixes: 48ebe1cbbeb51 ("kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available")
Assisted-by: LLM
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier 
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261010081914.540611-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations

2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00

gzip_mark() and gzip_release() are gone; there used to be two
forward declarations of each and the patch removing those suckers
had left one of each behind...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header

2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00

Just memcmp() with ELFMAG - that's the normal way to do it in userland
code, which that thing is.  Besides, that has the benefit of actually
building - str_has_prefix() is *NOT* present in .

Fixes: 5f14596e55de "alpha: Replace strncmp with str_has_prefix"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...

2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification

2023-02-14T17:37:18+00:00

Add a space after ','.
Add spaces around the '=', '>' and '=='.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Jiaming 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: fix spelling mistakes

2021-07-26T05:33:04+00:00

Fix some spelling mistakes in comments:
delarations ==> declarations
softare ==> software
suffiently ==> sufficiently
requred ==> required
unaliged ==> unaligned

Signed-off-by: gushengxian 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Remove space between * and parameter name

2021-07-26T05:33:04+00:00

'struct pcb_struct * pcb_va' should be 'struct pcb_struct *pcb_va'.

Signed-off-by: gushengxian 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner