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<title>linux.git/scripts/mkcompile_h, branch v6.18.21</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "kbuild: Make scripts/compile.h when sh != bash"</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T19:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-28T02:39:56+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit [1] in the pre-git era.

I do not know what problem happened in the script when sh != bash
because there is no commit message.

Now that this script is much simpler than it used to be, let's revert
it, and let' see. (If this turns out to be problematic, fix the code
with proper commit description.)

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=11acbbbb8a50f4de7dbe4bc1b5acc440dfe81810

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit [1] in the pre-git era.

I do not know what problem happened in the script when sh != bash
because there is no commit message.

Now that this script is much simpler than it used to be, let's revert
it, and let' see. (If this turns out to be problematic, fix the code
with proper commit description.)

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=11acbbbb8a50f4de7dbe4bc1b5acc440dfe81810

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/mkcompile_h: move LC_ALL=C to '$LD -v'</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T19:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-28T02:39:55+00:00</published>
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Minimize the scope of LC_ALL=C like before commit 87c94bfb8ad3 ("kbuild:
override build timestamp &amp; version").

Give LC_ALL=C to '$LD -v' to get the consistent version output, as commit
bcbcf50f5218 ("kbuild: fix ld-version.sh to not be affected by locale")
mentioned the LD version is affected by locale.

While I was here, I merged two sed invocations.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Minimize the scope of LC_ALL=C like before commit 87c94bfb8ad3 ("kbuild:
override build timestamp &amp; version").

Give LC_ALL=C to '$LD -v' to get the consistent version output, as commit
bcbcf50f5218 ("kbuild: fix ld-version.sh to not be affected by locale")
mentioned the LD version is affected by locale.

While I was here, I merged two sed invocations.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T19:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-28T02:39:53+00:00</published>
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Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the
timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal
since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is
temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise,
vmlinux would be rebuilt every time.

When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the
version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that
time to really fix UTS_VERSION.

However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty
timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a
are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not
need rebuilding.

To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows:

[1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from
    include/generated/compile.h

    include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the
    vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because
    some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION.

[2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c
    from init/version.c

    init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary
    directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to
    determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link,
    they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and
    timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the
timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal
since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is
temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise,
vmlinux would be rebuilt every time.

When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the
version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that
time to really fix UTS_VERSION.

However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty
timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a
are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not
need rebuilding.

To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows:

[1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from
    include/generated/compile.h

    include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the
    vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because
    some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION.

[2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c
    from init/version.c

    init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary
    directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to
    determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link,
    they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and
    timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/preempt: Tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on kernel headers</title>
<updated>2022-03-11T14:36:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-17T11:12:40+00:00</published>
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Displaying "PREEMPT" on kernel headers when CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
can be misleading for anybody involved in remote debugging because it
is then not guaranteed that there is an actual preemption behaviour. It
depends on default Kconfig or boot defined choices.

Therefore, tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on static kernel headers and leave
the search for the actual preemption behaviour to browsing dmesg.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217111240.GA742892@lothringen
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Displaying "PREEMPT" on kernel headers when CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
can be misleading for anybody involved in remote debugging because it
is then not guaranteed that there is an actual preemption behaviour. It
depends on default Kconfig or boot defined choices.

Therefore, tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on static kernel headers and leave
the search for the actual preemption behaviour to browsing dmesg.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217111240.GA742892@lothringen
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: mkcompile_h: consider timestamp if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T01:01:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Maennich</name>
<email>maennich@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-12T14:18:38+00:00</published>
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To avoid unnecessary recompilations, mkcompile_h does not regenerate
compile.h if just the timestamp changed.
Though, if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set, an explicit timestamp for the
build was requested, in which case we should not ignore it.

If a user follows the documentation for reproducible builds [1] and
defines KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP as the git commit timestamp, a clean
build will have the correct timestamp. A subsequent cherry-pick (or
amend) changes the commit timestamp and if an incremental build is done
with a different KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP now, that new value is not taken
into consideration. But it should for reproducibility.

Hence, whenever KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is explicitly set, do not ignore
UTS_VERSION when making a decision about whether the regenerated version
of compile.h should be moved into place.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/reproducible-builds.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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To avoid unnecessary recompilations, mkcompile_h does not regenerate
compile.h if just the timestamp changed.
Though, if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set, an explicit timestamp for the
build was requested, in which case we should not ignore it.

If a user follows the documentation for reproducible builds [1] and
defines KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP as the git commit timestamp, a clean
build will have the correct timestamp. A subsequent cherry-pick (or
amend) changes the commit timestamp and if an incremental build is done
with a different KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP now, that new value is not taken
into consideration. But it should for reproducibility.

Hence, whenever KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is explicitly set, do not ignore
UTS_VERSION when making a decision about whether the regenerated version
of compile.h should be moved into place.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/reproducible-builds.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: clean up ${quiet} checks in shell scripts</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T19:01:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T07:03:14+00:00</published>
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There were efforts to make 'make -s' really silent when it is a
warning-free build.

The conventional way was to let a shell script check ${quiet}, and if
it is 'silent_', suppress the stdout by itself.

With the previous commit, the 'cmd' takes care of it now. The 'cmd' is
also invoked from if_changed, if_changed_dep, and if_changed_rule.

You can omit ${quiet} checks in shell scripts when they are invoked
from the 'cmd' macro.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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There were efforts to make 'make -s' really silent when it is a
warning-free build.

The conventional way was to let a shell script check ${quiet}, and if
it is 'silent_', suppress the stdout by itself.

With the previous commit, the 'cmd' takes care of it now. The 'cmd' is
also invoked from if_changed, if_changed_dep, and if_changed_rule.

You can omit ${quiet} checks in shell scripts when they are invoked
from the 'cmd' macro.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Use uname for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST detection</title>
<updated>2020-10-20T15:46:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Down</name>
<email>chris@chrisdown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-20T09:34:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1e66d50ad3a1dbf0169b14d502be59a4b1213149'/>
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`hostname` may not be present on some systems as it's not mandated by
POSIX/SUSv4. This isn't just a theoretical problem: on Arch Linux,
`hostname` is provided by `inetutils`, which isn't part of the base
distribution.

    ./scripts/mkcompile_h: line 38: hostname: command not found

Use `uname -n` instead, which is more likely to be available (and
mandated by standards).

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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`hostname` may not be present on some systems as it's not mandated by
POSIX/SUSv4. This isn't just a theoretical problem: on Arch Linux,
`hostname` is provided by `inetutils`, which isn't part of the base
distribution.

    ./scripts/mkcompile_h: line 38: hostname: command not found

Use `uname -n` instead, which is more likely to be available (and
mandated by standards).

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: use CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT to construct LINUX_COMPILER macro</title>
<updated>2020-05-12T04:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-23T14:23:54+00:00</published>
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scripts/mkcompile_h runs $(CC) just for getting the version string.
Reuse CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT for optimization.

For GCC, this slightly changes the version string. I do not think it
is a big deal as we do not have the defined format for LINUX_COMPILER.
In fact, the recent commit 4dcc9a88448a ("kbuild: mkcompile_h:
Include $LD version in /proc/version") added the linker version.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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scripts/mkcompile_h runs $(CC) just for getting the version string.
Reuse CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT for optimization.

For GCC, this slightly changes the version string. I do not think it
is a big deal as we do not have the defined format for LINUX_COMPILER.
In fact, the recent commit 4dcc9a88448a ("kbuild: mkcompile_h:
Include $LD version in /proc/version") added the linker version.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version</title>
<updated>2020-04-08T15:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-02T08:18:37+00:00</published>
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When doing Clang builds of the kernel, it is possible to link with
either ld.bfd (binutils) or ld.lld (LLVM), but it is not possible to
discover this from a running kernel. Add the "$LD -v" output to
/proc/version.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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When doing Clang builds of the kernel, it is possible to link with
either ld.bfd (binutils) or ld.lld (LLVM), but it is not possible to
discover this from a running kernel. Add the "$LD -v" output to
/proc/version.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove the owner check in mkcompile_h</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T12:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-15T07:50:20+00:00</published>
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This reverts a very old commit, which dates back to the pre-git era:

|commit 5d1cfb5b12f72145d30ba0f53c9f238144b122b8
|Author: Kai Germaschewski &lt;kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de&gt;
|Date:   Sat Jul 27 02:53:19 2002 -0500
|
|    kbuild: Fix compiling/installing as different users
|
|    "make bzImage &amp;&amp; sudo make install" had the problem that during
|    the "sudo make install" the build system would notice that the information
|    in include/linux/compile.h is not accurate (it says "compiled by &lt;user&gt;",
|    but we are root), thus causing compile.h to be updated and leading to
|    some recompiles.
|
|    We now only update "compile.h" if the current user is the owner of
|    include/linux/autoconf.h, i.e. the user who did the "make *config". So the
|    above sequence will correctly state "compiled by &lt;user&gt;".
|
|diff --git a/scripts/mkcompile_h b/scripts/mkcompile_h
|index 6313db96172..cd956380978 100755
|--- a/scripts/mkcompile_h
|+++ b/scripts/mkcompile_h
|@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ ARCH=$2
| SMP=$3
| CC=$4
|
|+# If compile.h exists already and we don't own autoconf.h
|+# (i.e. we're not the same user who did make *config), don't
|+# modify compile.h
|+# So "sudo make install" won't change the "compiled by &lt;user&gt;"
|+# do "compiled by root"
|+
|+if [ -r $TARGET -a ! -O ../include/linux/autoconf.h ]; then
|+  echo ' (not modified)'
|+  exit 0
|+fi
|+
| if [ -r ../.version ]; then
|   VERSION=`cat ../.version`
| else

The 'make bzImage &amp;&amp; sudo make install' problem no longer happens
because commit 1648e4f80506 ("x86, kbuild: make "make install" not
depend on vmlinux") fixed the root cause.

Commit 19514fc665ff ("arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on
vmlinux") fixed the similar issue on ARM, with detailed explanation.

So, the rule is that the installation targets should never trigger
the builds of any build artifact. By following it, this check is
unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts a very old commit, which dates back to the pre-git era:

|commit 5d1cfb5b12f72145d30ba0f53c9f238144b122b8
|Author: Kai Germaschewski &lt;kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de&gt;
|Date:   Sat Jul 27 02:53:19 2002 -0500
|
|    kbuild: Fix compiling/installing as different users
|
|    "make bzImage &amp;&amp; sudo make install" had the problem that during
|    the "sudo make install" the build system would notice that the information
|    in include/linux/compile.h is not accurate (it says "compiled by &lt;user&gt;",
|    but we are root), thus causing compile.h to be updated and leading to
|    some recompiles.
|
|    We now only update "compile.h" if the current user is the owner of
|    include/linux/autoconf.h, i.e. the user who did the "make *config". So the
|    above sequence will correctly state "compiled by &lt;user&gt;".
|
|diff --git a/scripts/mkcompile_h b/scripts/mkcompile_h
|index 6313db96172..cd956380978 100755
|--- a/scripts/mkcompile_h
|+++ b/scripts/mkcompile_h
|@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ ARCH=$2
| SMP=$3
| CC=$4
|
|+# If compile.h exists already and we don't own autoconf.h
|+# (i.e. we're not the same user who did make *config), don't
|+# modify compile.h
|+# So "sudo make install" won't change the "compiled by &lt;user&gt;"
|+# do "compiled by root"
|+
|+if [ -r $TARGET -a ! -O ../include/linux/autoconf.h ]; then
|+  echo ' (not modified)'
|+  exit 0
|+fi
|+
| if [ -r ../.version ]; then
|   VERSION=`cat ../.version`
| else

The 'make bzImage &amp;&amp; sudo make install' problem no longer happens
because commit 1648e4f80506 ("x86, kbuild: make "make install" not
depend on vmlinux") fixed the root cause.

Commit 19514fc665ff ("arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on
vmlinux") fixed the similar issue on ARM, with detailed explanation.

So, the rule is that the installation targets should never trigger
the builds of any build artifact. By following it, this check is
unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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