The conditional:

  ifneq ($(hostprogs),)

... is evaluated to true if $(hostprogs) does not contain any word but
whitespace characters.

  ifneq ($(strip $(hostprogs)),)

... is a safe way to avoid interpreting whitespace as a non-empty value,
but I'd rather want to use the side-effect of $(sort ...) to do the
equivalent.

$(sort ...) is used in scripts/Makefile.host in order to drop duplication
in $(hostprogs). It is also useful to strip excessive spaces.

Move $(sort ...) before evaluating the ifneq.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The host shared library rules are currently implemented in
scripts/Makefile.host, but actually GCC-plugin is the only user of
them. (The VDSO .so files are built for the target by different
build rules) Hence, they do not need to be treewide available.

Move all the relevant build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile.

I also optimized the build steps so *.so is directly built from .c
because every upstream plugin is compiled from a single source file.

I am still keeping the multi-file plugin support, which Kees Cook
mentioned might be needed by out-of-tree plugins.
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/11/1107)

If the plugin, foo.so, is compiled from two files foo.c and foo2.c,
then you can do like follows:

  foo-objs := foo.o foo2.o

Single-file plugins do not need the *-objs notation.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

This omits system headers from the generated header dependency.

System headers are not updated unless you upgrade the compiler. Nor do
they contain CONFIG options, so fixdep does not need to parse them.

Having said that, the effect of this optimization will be quite small
because the kernel code generally does not include system headers
except <stdarg.h>. Host programs include a lot of system headers,
but there are not so many in the kernel tree.

At first, keeping system headers in .*.cmd files might be useful to
detect the compiler update, but there is no guarantee that <stdarg.h>
is included from every file. So, I implemented a more reliable way in
the previous commit.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Nobody was opposed to raising minimum GCC version to 4.8 [1]
So, we will drop GCC <= 4.7 support sooner or later.

We always use C++ compiler for building plugins for GCC >= 4.8.

This commit drops the plugin support for GCC <= 4.7 a bit earlier,
which allows us to dump lots of code.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/545

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.

It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.

This commit renames like follows:

  always       ->  always-y
  hostprogs-y  ->  hostprogs

So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:

  always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
  always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)    += ...
      ...
  hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)

I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.

The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Kbuild provides per-file compiler flag addition/removal:

  CFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  CFLAGS_REMOVE_<basetarget>.o
  AFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  AFLAGS_REMOVE_<basetarget>.o
  CPPFLAGS_<basetarget>.lds
  HOSTCFLAGS_<basetarget>.o
  HOSTCXXFLAGS_<basetarget>.o

The <basetarget> is the filename of the target with its directory and
suffix stripped.

This syntax comes into a trouble when two files with the same basename
appear in one Makefile, for example:

  obj-y += foo.o
  obj-y += dir/foo.o
  CFLAGS_foo.o := <some-flags>

Here, the <some-flags> applies to both foo.o and dir/foo.o

The real world problem is:

  scripts/kconfig/util.c
  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c

Both files are compiled into scripts/kconfig/mconf, but only the
latter should be given with the ncurses flags.

It is more sensible to use the relative path to the Makefile, like this:

  obj-y += foo.o
  CFLAGS_foo.o := <some-flags>
  obj-y += dir/foo.o
  CFLAGS_dir/foo.o := <other-flags>

At first, I attempted to replace $(basetarget) with $*. The $* variable
is replaced with the stem ('%') part in a pattern rule. This works with
most of cases, but does not for explicit rules.

For example, arch/ia64/lib/Makefile reuses rule_as_o_S in its own
explicit rules, so $* will be empty, resulting in ignoring the per-file
AFLAGS.

I introduced a new variable, target-stem, which can be used also from
explicit rules.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Flex and bison are used for kconfig, dtc, genksyms, all of which are
host programs. I never imagine the kernel embeds a parser or a lexer.

Move the flex and bison rules to scripts/Makefile.host. This file is
included only when hostprogs-y etc. is present in the Makefile in the
directory. So, parsing these rules are skipped in most of directories.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - remove headers_{install,check}_all targets

 - remove unreasonable 'depends on !UML' from CONFIG_SAMPLES

 - re-implement 'make headers_install' more cleanly

 - add new header-test-y syntax to compile-test headers

 - compile-test exported headers to ensure they are compilable in
   user-space

 - compile-test headers under include/ to ensure they are self-contained

 - remove -Waggregate-return, -Wno-uninitialized, -Wno-unused-value
   flags

 - add -Werror=unknown-warning-option for Clang

 - add 128-bit built-in types support to genksyms

 - fix missed rebuild of modules.builtin

 - propagate 'No space left on device' error in fixdep to Make

 - allow Clang to use its integrated assembler

 - improve some coccinelle scripts

 - add a new flag KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE to request Kbuild to use absolute
   path for $(srctree).

 - do not ignore errors when compression utility is missing

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (49 commits)
  kbuild: use -- separater intead of $(filter-out ...) for cc-cross-prefix
  kbuild: Inform user to pass ARCH= for make mrproper
  kbuild: fix compression errors getting ignored
  kbuild: add a flag to force absolute path for srctree
  kbuild: replace KBUILD_SRCTREE with boolean building_out_of_srctree
  kbuild: remove src and obj from the top Makefile
  scripts/tags.sh: remove unused environment variables from comments
  scripts/tags.sh: drop SUBARCH support for ARM
  kbuild: compile-test kernel headers to ensure they are self-contained
  kheaders: include only headers into kheaders_data.tar.xz
  kheaders: remove meaningless -R option of 'ls'
  kbuild: support header-test-pattern-y
  kbuild: do not create wrappers for header-test-y
  kbuild: compile-test exported headers to ensure they are self-contained
  init/Kconfig: add CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK
  kallsyms: exclude kasan local symbols on s390
  kbuild: add more hints about SUBDIRS replacement
  coccinelle: api/stream_open: treat all wait_.*() calls as blocking
  coccinelle: put_device: Add a cast to an expression for an assignment
  coccinelle: put_device: Adjust a message construction
  ...

Commit 25b146c5b8ce ("kbuild: allow Kbuild to start from any directory")
deprecated KBUILD_SRCTREE.

It is only used in tools/testing/selftest/ to distinguish out-of-tree
build. Replace it with a new boolean flag, building_out_of_srctree.

I also replaced the conditional ($(srctree),.) because the next commit
will allow an absolute path to be used for $(srctree) even when building
in the source tree.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents
there are written at different times: some use markdown,
some use their own peculiar logic to split sections.

Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much
the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>