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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/Makefile, branch v5.4.30</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang</title>
<updated>2020-01-04T18:18:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T04:57:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 465bfd9c44dea6b55962b5788a23ac87a467c923 ]

When building pseries_defconfig, building vdso32 errors out:

  error: unknown target ABI 'elfv1'

This happens because -m32 in clang changes the target to 32-bit,
which does not allow the ABI to be changed.

Commit 4dc831aa8813 ("powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a
powerpc64le toolchain") added these flags to fix building big endian
kernels with a little endian GCC.

Clang doesn't need -mabi because the target triple controls the
default value. -mlittle-endian and -mbig-endian manipulate the triple
into either powerpc64-* or powerpc64le-*, which properly sets the
default ABI.

Adding a debug print out in the PPC64TargetInfo constructor after line
383 above shows this:

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64-linux -mbig-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv1

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64-linux -mlittle-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv2

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64le-linux -mbig-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv1

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64le-linux -mlittle-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv2

Don't specify -mabi when building with clang to avoid the build error
with -m32 and not change any code generation.

-mcall-aixdesc is not an implemented flag in clang so it can be safely
excluded as well, see commit 238abecde8ad ("powerpc: Don't use gcc
specific options on clang").

pseries_defconfig successfully builds after this patch and
powernv_defconfig and ppc44x_defconfig don't regress.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Trim clang links in change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-2-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 465bfd9c44dea6b55962b5788a23ac87a467c923 ]

When building pseries_defconfig, building vdso32 errors out:

  error: unknown target ABI 'elfv1'

This happens because -m32 in clang changes the target to 32-bit,
which does not allow the ABI to be changed.

Commit 4dc831aa8813 ("powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a
powerpc64le toolchain") added these flags to fix building big endian
kernels with a little endian GCC.

Clang doesn't need -mabi because the target triple controls the
default value. -mlittle-endian and -mbig-endian manipulate the triple
into either powerpc64-* or powerpc64le-*, which properly sets the
default ABI.

Adding a debug print out in the PPC64TargetInfo constructor after line
383 above shows this:

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64-linux -mbig-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv1

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64-linux -mlittle-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv2

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64le-linux -mbig-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv1

  $ echo | ./clang -E --target=powerpc64le-linux -mlittle-endian -o /dev/null -
  Default ABI: elfv2

Don't specify -mabi when building with clang to avoid the build error
with -m32 and not change any code generation.

-mcall-aixdesc is not an implemented flag in clang so it can be safely
excluded as well, see commit 238abecde8ad ("powerpc: Don't use gcc
specific options on clang").

pseries_defconfig successfully builds after this patch and
powernv_defconfig and ppc44x_defconfig don't regress.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Trim clang links in change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191119045712.39633-2-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-09-20T18:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-20T18:48:06+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "This is a bit late, partly due to me travelling, and partly due to a
  power outage knocking out some of my test systems *while* I was
  travelling.

   - Initial support for running on a system with an Ultravisor, which
     is software that runs below the hypervisor and protects guests
     against some attacks by the hypervisor.

   - Support for building the kernel to run as a "Secure Virtual
     Machine", ie. as a guest capable of running on a system with an
     Ultravisor.

   - Some changes to our DMA code on bare metal, to allow devices with
     medium sized DMA masks (&gt; 32 &amp;&amp; &lt; 59 bits) to use more than 2GB of
     DMA space.

   - Support for firmware assisted crash dumps on bare metal (powernv).

   - Two series fixing bugs in and refactoring our PCI EEH code.

   - A large series refactoring our exception entry code to use gas
     macros, both to make it more readable and also enable some future
     optimisations.

  As well as many cleanups and other minor features &amp; fixups.

  Thanks to: Adam Zerella, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
  JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig,
  Claudio Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, David Hildenbrand,
  Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg
  Kurz, Guerney Hunt, Gustavo Romero, Halil Pasic, Hari Bathini, Joakim
  Tjernlund, Jonathan Neuschafer, Jordan Niethe, Leonardo Bras, Lianbo
  Jiang, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Maxiwell S. Garcia, Michael Anderson, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Reza Arbab, Ryan Grimm,
  Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Segher Boessenkool, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
  Thiago Bauermann, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Thomas Gleixner, Tom
  Lendacky, Vasant Hegde"

* tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (264 commits)
  powerpc/mm/mce: Keep irqs disabled during lockless page table walk
  powerpc: Use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() when unwinding
  powerpc/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
  ftrace: Look up the address of return_to_handler() using helpers
  powerpc: dump kernel log before carrying out fadump or kdump
  docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference
  powerpc/xmon: Fix output of XIVE IPI
  powerpc/xmon: Improve output of XIVE interrupts
  powerpc/mm/radix: remove useless kernel messages
  powerpc/fadump: support holes in kernel boot memory area
  powerpc/fadump: remove RMA_START and RMA_END macros
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore
  powerpc/fadump: consider f/w load area
  powerpc/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /sys/firmware/opal/core file
  powerpc/opalcore: export /sys/firmware/opal/core for analysing opal crashes
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP
  powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel
  powerpc/fadump: improve how crashed kernel's memory is reserved
  powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory
  powerpc/fadump: make crash memory ranges array allocation generic
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "This is a bit late, partly due to me travelling, and partly due to a
  power outage knocking out some of my test systems *while* I was
  travelling.

   - Initial support for running on a system with an Ultravisor, which
     is software that runs below the hypervisor and protects guests
     against some attacks by the hypervisor.

   - Support for building the kernel to run as a "Secure Virtual
     Machine", ie. as a guest capable of running on a system with an
     Ultravisor.

   - Some changes to our DMA code on bare metal, to allow devices with
     medium sized DMA masks (&gt; 32 &amp;&amp; &lt; 59 bits) to use more than 2GB of
     DMA space.

   - Support for firmware assisted crash dumps on bare metal (powernv).

   - Two series fixing bugs in and refactoring our PCI EEH code.

   - A large series refactoring our exception entry code to use gas
     macros, both to make it more readable and also enable some future
     optimisations.

  As well as many cleanups and other minor features &amp; fixups.

  Thanks to: Adam Zerella, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew
  Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
  JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig,
  Claudio Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, David Hildenbrand,
  Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg
  Kurz, Guerney Hunt, Gustavo Romero, Halil Pasic, Hari Bathini, Joakim
  Tjernlund, Jonathan Neuschafer, Jordan Niethe, Leonardo Bras, Lianbo
  Jiang, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Masahiro Yamada, Maxiwell S. Garcia, Michael Anderson, Nathan
  Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Reza Arbab, Ryan Grimm,
  Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Segher Boessenkool, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
  Thiago Bauermann, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Thomas Gleixner, Tom
  Lendacky, Vasant Hegde"

* tag 'powerpc-5.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (264 commits)
  powerpc/mm/mce: Keep irqs disabled during lockless page table walk
  powerpc: Use ftrace_graph_ret_addr() when unwinding
  powerpc/ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
  ftrace: Look up the address of return_to_handler() using helpers
  powerpc: dump kernel log before carrying out fadump or kdump
  docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference
  powerpc/xmon: Fix output of XIVE IPI
  powerpc/xmon: Improve output of XIVE interrupts
  powerpc/mm/radix: remove useless kernel messages
  powerpc/fadump: support holes in kernel boot memory area
  powerpc/fadump: remove RMA_START and RMA_END macros
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about option to release opalcore
  powerpc/fadump: consider f/w load area
  powerpc/opalcore: provide an option to invalidate /sys/firmware/opal/core file
  powerpc/opalcore: export /sys/firmware/opal/core for analysing opal crashes
  powerpc/fadump: update documentation about CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP
  powerpc/fadump: add support to preserve crash data on FADUMP disabled kernel
  powerpc/fadump: improve how crashed kernel's memory is reserved
  powerpc/fadump: consider reserved ranges while releasing memory
  powerpc/fadump: make crash memory ranges array allocation generic
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-09-20T15:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-20T15:36:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d7b0827f28ab3a4fd65864451ffefa695e3255fd'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add modpost warn exported symbols marked as 'static' because 'static'
   and EXPORT_SYMBOL is an odd combination

 - break the build early if gold linker is used

 - optimize the Bison rule to produce .c and .h files by a single
   pattern rule

 - handle PREEMPT_RT in the module vermagic and UTS_VERSION

 - warn CONFIG options leaked to the user-space except existing ones

 - make single targets work properly

 - rebuild modules when module linker scripts are updated

 - split the module final link stage into scripts/Makefile.modfinal

 - fix the missed error code in merge_config.sh

 - improve the error message displayed on the attempt of the O= build in
   unclean source tree

 - remove 'clean-dirs' syntax

 - disable -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning for Clang

 - add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE_O3 for ARC

 - remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS variables

 - add $(BASH) to run bash scripts

 - change *CFLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the relative path to $(obj)
   instead of the basename

 - stop suppressing Clang's -Wunused-function warnings when W=1

 - fix linux/export.h to avoid genksyms calculating CRC of trimmed
   exported symbols

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (63 commits)
  genksyms: convert to SPDX License Identifier for lex.l and parse.y
  modpost: use __section in the output to *.mod.c
  modpost: use MODULE_INFO() for __module_depends
  export.h, genksyms: do not make genksyms calculate CRC of trimmed symbols
  export.h: remove defined(__KERNEL__), which is no longer needed
  kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build
  kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN
  kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
  merge_config.sh: ignore unwanted grep errors
  kbuild: change *FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  modpost: add NOFAIL to strndup
  modpost: add guid_t type definition
  kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension
  kbuild: remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS
  kbuild,arc: add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC
  kbuild: Do not enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang for now
  kbuild: clean up subdir-ymn calculation in Makefile.clean
  kbuild: remove unneeded '+' marker from cmd_clean
  kbuild: remove clean-dirs syntax
  kbuild: check clean srctree even earlier
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add modpost warn exported symbols marked as 'static' because 'static'
   and EXPORT_SYMBOL is an odd combination

 - break the build early if gold linker is used

 - optimize the Bison rule to produce .c and .h files by a single
   pattern rule

 - handle PREEMPT_RT in the module vermagic and UTS_VERSION

 - warn CONFIG options leaked to the user-space except existing ones

 - make single targets work properly

 - rebuild modules when module linker scripts are updated

 - split the module final link stage into scripts/Makefile.modfinal

 - fix the missed error code in merge_config.sh

 - improve the error message displayed on the attempt of the O= build in
   unclean source tree

 - remove 'clean-dirs' syntax

 - disable -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning for Clang

 - add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE_O3 for ARC

 - remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS variables

 - add $(BASH) to run bash scripts

 - change *CFLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the relative path to $(obj)
   instead of the basename

 - stop suppressing Clang's -Wunused-function warnings when W=1

 - fix linux/export.h to avoid genksyms calculating CRC of trimmed
   exported symbols

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (63 commits)
  genksyms: convert to SPDX License Identifier for lex.l and parse.y
  modpost: use __section in the output to *.mod.c
  modpost: use MODULE_INFO() for __module_depends
  export.h, genksyms: do not make genksyms calculate CRC of trimmed symbols
  export.h: remove defined(__KERNEL__), which is no longer needed
  kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build
  kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN
  kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
  merge_config.sh: ignore unwanted grep errors
  kbuild: change *FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  modpost: add NOFAIL to strndup
  modpost: add guid_t type definition
  kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension
  kbuild: remove ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS
  kbuild,arc: add CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC
  kbuild: Do not enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang for now
  kbuild: clean up subdir-ymn calculation in Makefile.clean
  kbuild: remove unneeded '+' marker from cmd_clean
  kbuild: remove clean-dirs syntax
  kbuild: check clean srctree even earlier
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition</title>
<updated>2019-08-22T13:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T03:21:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=56347074c5307d7bca5db38eb2c764c64ae57514'/>
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The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition in arch/powerpc/Makefile has never worked
in a useful way because it is always overridden by the following code
in the top Makefile:

  # use the deterministic mode of AR if available
  KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)

The code in the top Makefile was added in 2011, by commit 40df759e2b9e
("kbuild: Fix build with binutils &lt;= 2.19").

The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition for ppc has always been dead code from the
beginning.

Nobody has reported a problem since 43c9127d94d6 ("powerpc: Add option
to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190713032106.8509-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
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The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition in arch/powerpc/Makefile has never worked
in a useful way because it is always overridden by the following code
in the top Makefile:

  # use the deterministic mode of AR if available
  KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)

The code in the top Makefile was added in 2011, by commit 40df759e2b9e
("kbuild: Fix build with binutils &lt;= 2.19").

The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition for ppc has always been dead code from the
beginning.

Nobody has reported a problem since 43c9127d94d6 ("powerpc: Add option
to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190713032106.8509-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: rebuild modules when module linker scripts are updated</title>
<updated>2019-08-21T12:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-14T16:06:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=10df063855822fcea3c0f51dbf534ad643d3cb1b'/>
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<content type='text'>
Currently, the timestamp of module linker scripts are not checked.
Add them to the dependency of modules so they are correctly rebuilt.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Currently, the timestamp of module linker scripts are not checked.
Add them to the dependency of modules so they are correctly rebuilt.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/Makefile: Always pass --synthetic to nm if supported</title>
<updated>2019-08-20T09:01:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T07:23:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=117acf5c29dd89e4c86761c365b9724dba0d9763'/>
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Back in 2004 we added logic to arch/ppc64/Makefile to pass
the --synthetic option to nm, if it was supported by nm.

Then in 2005 when arch/ppc64 and arch/ppc were merged, the logic to
add --synthetic was moved inside an #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 block within
arch/powerpc/Makefile, and has remained there since.

That was fine, though crufty, until recently when a change to
init/Kconfig added a config time check that uses $(NM). On powerpc
that leads to an infinite loop because Kconfig uses $(NM) to calculate
some values, then the powerpc Makefile changes $(NM), which Kconfig
notices and restarts.

The original commit that added --synthetic simply said:
  On new toolchains we need to use nm --synthetic or we miss code
  symbols.

And the nm man page says that the --synthetic option causes nm to:
  Include synthetic symbols in the output. These are special symbols
  created by the linker for various purposes.

So it seems safe to always pass --synthetic if nm supports it, ie. on
32-bit and 64-bit, it just means 32-bit kernels might have more
symbols reported (and in practice I see no extra symbols). Making it
unconditional avoids the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64, which in turn avoids the
infinite loop.

Debugged-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Back in 2004 we added logic to arch/ppc64/Makefile to pass
the --synthetic option to nm, if it was supported by nm.

Then in 2005 when arch/ppc64 and arch/ppc were merged, the logic to
add --synthetic was moved inside an #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 block within
arch/powerpc/Makefile, and has remained there since.

That was fine, though crufty, until recently when a change to
init/Kconfig added a config time check that uses $(NM). On powerpc
that leads to an infinite loop because Kconfig uses $(NM) to calculate
some values, then the powerpc Makefile changes $(NM), which Kconfig
notices and restarts.

The original commit that added --synthetic simply said:
  On new toolchains we need to use nm --synthetic or we miss code
  symbols.

And the nm man page says that the --synthetic option causes nm to:
  Include synthetic symbols in the output. These are special symbols
  created by the linker for various purposes.

So it seems safe to always pass --synthetic if nm supports it, ie. on
32-bit and 64-bit, it just means 32-bit kernels might have more
symbols reported (and in practice I see no extra symbols). Making it
unconditional avoids the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64, which in turn avoids the
infinite loop.

Debugged-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/</title>
<updated>2019-05-18T02:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-13T06:22:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=9cc342f6c4a06ea613ddef1bcaa25409260aec63'/>
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Currently, the Kbuild core manipulates header search paths in a crazy
way [1].

To fix this mess, I want all Makefiles to add explicit $(srctree)/ to
the search paths in the srctree. Some Makefiles are already written in
that way, but not all. The goal of this work is to make the notation
consistent, and finally get rid of the gross hacks.

Having whitespaces after -I does not matter since commit 48f6e3cf5bc6
("kbuild: do not drop -I without parameter").

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9632347/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Currently, the Kbuild core manipulates header search paths in a crazy
way [1].

To fix this mess, I want all Makefiles to add explicit $(srctree)/ to
the search paths in the srctree. Some Makefiles are already written in
that way, but not all. The goal of this work is to make the notation
consistent, and finally get rid of the gross hacks.

Having whitespaces after -I does not matter since commit 48f6e3cf5bc6
("kbuild: do not drop -I without parameter").

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9632347/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: vdso: Make vdso32 installation conditional in vdso_install</title>
<updated>2019-04-20T12:02:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-22T04:24:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=ff6d27823f619892ab96f7461764840e0d786b15'/>
<id>ff6d27823f619892ab96f7461764840e0d786b15</id>
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The 32-bit vDSO is not needed and not normally built for 64-bit
little-endian configurations.  However, the vdso_install target still
builds and installs it.  Add the same config condition as is normally
used for the build.

Fixes: e0d005916994 ("powerpc/vdso: Disable building the 32-bit VDSO ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The 32-bit vDSO is not needed and not normally built for 64-bit
little-endian configurations.  However, the vdso_install target still
builds and installs it.  Add the same config condition as is normally
used for the build.

Fixes: e0d005916994 ("powerpc/vdso: Disable building the 32-bit VDSO ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix defconfig choice logic when cross compiling</title>
<updated>2019-04-20T12:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-07T05:16:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=af5cd05de5dd38cf25d14ea4d30ae9b791d2420b'/>
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Our logic for choosing defconfig doesn't work well in some situations.

For example if you're on a ppc64le machine but you specify a non-empty
CROSS_COMPILE, in order to use a non-default toolchain, then defconfig
will give you ppc64_defconfig (big endian):

  $ make CROSS_COMPILE=~/toolchains/gcc-8/bin/powerpc-linux- defconfig
  *** Default configuration is based on 'ppc64_defconfig'

This is because we assume that CROSS_COMPILE being set means we
can't be on a ppc machine and rather than checking we just default to
ppc64_defconfig.

We should just ignore CROSS_COMPILE, instead check the machine with
uname and if it's one of ppc, ppc64 or ppc64le then use that
defconfig. If it's none of those then we fall back to ppc64_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Our logic for choosing defconfig doesn't work well in some situations.

For example if you're on a ppc64le machine but you specify a non-empty
CROSS_COMPILE, in order to use a non-default toolchain, then defconfig
will give you ppc64_defconfig (big endian):

  $ make CROSS_COMPILE=~/toolchains/gcc-8/bin/powerpc-linux- defconfig
  *** Default configuration is based on 'ppc64_defconfig'

This is because we assume that CROSS_COMPILE being set means we
can't be on a ppc machine and rather than checking we just default to
ppc64_defconfig.

We should just ignore CROSS_COMPILE, instead check the machine with
uname and if it's one of ppc, ppc64 or ppc64le then use that
defconfig. If it's none of those then we fall back to ppc64_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Add ppc_defconfig</title>
<updated>2019-04-20T12:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-07T05:16:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a273fa386a947612a23b0d56dcfb8823662b8606'/>
<id>a273fa386a947612a23b0d56dcfb8823662b8606</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a generic 32-bit defconfig called ppc_defconfig. This means we'll
have a defconfig matching "uname -m" for all cases.

This config is mostly intended for build testing but if someone wants
to tweak it to get it booting on something that would be fine too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add a generic 32-bit defconfig called ppc_defconfig. This means we'll
have a defconfig matching "uname -m" for all cases.

This config is mostly intended for build testing but if someone wants
to tweak it to get it booting on something that would be fine too.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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