linux-toradex.git/scripts/Makefile.lib, branch imx-android-r10.4

Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild

2010-06-01T15:55:52+00:00

* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...

x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

2010-04-06T22:52:11+00:00

Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.

A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO

2010-03-11T10:01:15+00:00

The output of LZO is not aligned with the other output:
  ...
  CC      drivers/usb/mon/usbmon.mod.o
  LZO    arch/mips/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lzo
  ...

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

kbuild: really fix bzImage build with non-bash sh

2010-01-13T12:27:24+00:00

In an x86 build with CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA enabled and dash as sh,
arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma ends with
'\xf0\x7d\x39\x00' (16 bytes) instead of the 4 bytes intended and
the resulting vmlinuz fails to boot.  This improves on the
previous behavior, in which the file contained the characters
'-ne ' as well, but not by much.

Previous commits replaced "echo -ne" first with "/bin/echo -ne",
then "printf" in the hope of improving portability, but none of
these commands is guaranteed to support hexadecimal escapes on
POSIX systems.  So use the shell to convert from hexadecimal to
octal.

With this change, an LZMA-compressed kernel built with dash as sh
boots correctly again.

Reported-by: Sebastian Dalfuß 
Reported-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Reported-by: Michael Guntsche 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder 
Cc: Michael Tokarev 
Cc: Alek Du 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2010-01-11T17:34:04+00:00

This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.

Russell King said:

: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort.  The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.

This patch:

The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction.  Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:

Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip  1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo   1.75Mo 0.48s

So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.

This part contains:
 - Makefile routine to support lzo compression
 - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
   compressed kernels
 - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
   block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
 - config dialog for kernel compression

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre 
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin 
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild

2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00

* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)

module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option

2009-12-15T05:58:26+00:00

The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
.tmp_exports-asm.S.  Currently it is mixed in with C structure
definitions in "asm/module.h".  Move the definition of this arch option
into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.

This also lets modpost.c use the same definition.  Previously modpost
relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.

A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
showed the generated code was unchanged.  vmlinux was identical save
for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
symbol in the kallsyms data).

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger  (blackfin)
CC: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

kbuild: fix bzImage build for x86

2009-12-12T12:08:13+00:00

As has been discussed previously (and Sam has been CC'ed), the fix
is still incorrect.  It replaces "echo -ne" with "/bin/echo -ne",
but neither of the two are guaranteed to support the necessary
arguments and necessary (hexadecimal) escape sequences.  What should
be used here is printf(1).  The trivial patch below (on top of these
kbuild changes) fixes this issue.

Signed-Off-By: Michael Tokarev 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

kbuild: Fix size_append issue for bzip2/lzma kernel

2009-10-11T21:21:25+00:00

The Makefile.lib will call "echo -ne" to append uncompressed kernel size to
bzip2/lzma kernel image.
The "echo" here depends on the shell that /bin/sh pointing to.
On Ubuntu system, the /bin/sh is pointing to dash, which does not support
"echo -e" at all. Use /bin/echo instead of shell echo should always be safe.

Signed-off-by: Alek Du 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure

2009-06-18T20:03:57+00:00

Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel.  gcov may be useful for:

 * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
 * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
 * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
   associated code is never run?)

The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:

 * change kbuild to include profiling flags
 * provide functions needed by profiling code
 * present profiling data as files in debugfs

Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.

For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Li Wei 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds