linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, branch v6.18.22

powerpc: use always-y instead of extra-y in Makefiles

2025-08-20T08:32:13+00:00

The extra-y syntax is planned for deprecation because it is similar
to always-y.

When building the boot wrapper, always-y and extra-y are equivalent.
Use always-y instead.

In arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile, I added ifdef KBUILD_BUILTIN to
keep the current behavior: prom_init_check is skipped when building
only modular objects.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250602163302.478765-1-masahiroy@kernel.org

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-06-07T17:05:35+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which
   exports a symbol only to specified modules

 - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms

 - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n

 - Add checkers for redundant or missing  inclusion

 - Deprecate the extra-y syntax

 - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files

* tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits)
  genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values
  arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds
  kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES}
  efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
  module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static
  scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include  when W=1
  scripts/misc-check: check missing #include  when W=1
  scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck
  kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile
  scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation
  kconfig: introduce menu type enum
  docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block
  kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering
  modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time
  kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build
  Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation
  Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules
  Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers
  ...

arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds

2025-06-07T05:38:07+00:00

The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

powerpc/kernel: Fix ppc_save_regs inclusion in build

2025-05-14T06:41:19+00:00

Recent patch fixed an old commit
'fc2a5a6161a2 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")'
which is to include building of ppc_save_reg.c only when XMON
and KEXEC_CORE and PPC_BOOK3S are enabled. This was valid, since
ppc_save_regs was called only in replay_system_reset() of old
irq.c which was under BOOK3S.

But there has been multiple refactoring of irq.c and have
added call to ppc_save_regs() from __replay_soft_interrupts
-> replay_soft_interrupts which is part of irq_64.c included
under CONFIG_PPC64. And since ppc_save_regs is called in
CRASH_DUMP path as part of crash_setup_regs in kexec.h,
CONFIG_PPC32 also needs it.

So with this recent patch which enabled the building of
ppc_save_regs.c caused a build break when none of these
(XMON, KEXEC_CORE, BOOK3S) where enabled as part of config.
Patch to enable building of ppc_save_regs.c by defaults.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250511041111.841158-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: do not build ppc_save_regs.o always

2025-04-29T05:46:23+00:00

The Fixes commit below tried to add CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S to one of the
conditions to enable the build of ppc_save_regs.o. But it failed to do
so, in fact. The commit omitted to add a dollar sign.

Therefore, ppc_save_regs.o is built always these days (as
"(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S)" is never an empty string).

Fix this by adding the missing dollar sign.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) 
Fixes: fc2a5a6161a2 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250417105305.397128-1-jirislaby@kernel.org

powerpc/io: Remove PPC_IO_WORKAROUNDS

2025-02-26T15:45:08+00:00

The Cell blade support was the last user of PPC_IO_WORKAROUNDS, so they
can now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-9-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc: Remove PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI

2025-02-26T15:45:08+00:00

The Cell blade support was the last user of PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI, so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-8-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc: Replace kretprobe code with rethook on powerpc

2024-09-05T12:25:36+00:00

This is an adaptation of commit f3a112c0c40d ("x86,rethook,kprobes:
Replace kretprobe with rethook on x86") to powerpc.

Rethook follows the existing kretprobe implementation, but separates
it from kprobes so that it can be used by fprobe (ftrace-based
function entry/exit probes). As such, this patch also enables fprobe
to work on powerpc. The only other change compared to the existing
kretprobe implementation is doing the return address fixup in
arch_rethook_fixup_return().

Reference to other archs:
commit b57c2f124098 ("riscv: add riscv rethook implementation")
commit 7b0a096436c2 ("LoongArch: Replace kretprobe with rethook")

Note:
=====

In future, rethook will be only for kretprobe, and kretprobe
will be replaced by fprobe.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/172000134410.63468.13742222887213469474.stgit@devnote2/

We will	adapt the above	implementation for powerpc once its upstream.
Until then, we can have	this implementation of rethook to serve
current	kretprobe usecases.

Reviewed-by: Naveen Rao 
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Dubey 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240830113131.7597-1-adubey@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: Remove core support for 40x

2024-06-28T12:28:47+00:00

Now that 40x platforms have gone, remove support
for 40x in the core of powerpc arch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240628121201.130802-4-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc/Makefile: Remove bits related to the previous use of -mcmodel=large

2024-05-07T13:48:45+00:00

All supported compilers today (gcc v5.1+ and clang v11+) have support for
-mcmodel=medium. As such, NO_MINIMAL_TOC is no longer being set. Remove
NO_MINIMAL_TOC as well as the fallback to -mminimal-toc.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy 
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240110141237.3179199-1-naveen@kernel.org