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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/kbuild, branch v5.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-07-20T16:34:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-20T16:34:55+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - match the directory structure of the linux-libc-dev package to that
   of Debian-based distributions

 - fix incorrect include/config/auto.conf generation when Kconfig
   creates it along with the .config file

 - remove misleading $(AS) from documents

 - clean up precious tag files by distclean instead of mrproper

 - add a new coccinelle patch for devm_platform_ioremap_resource
   migration

 - refactor module-related scripts to read modules.order instead of
   $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod files to get the list of created modules

 - remove MODVERDIR

 - update list of header compile-test

 - add -fcf-protection=none flag to avoid conflict with the retpoline
   flags when CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
  kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags
  kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.3-rc1
  kbuild: split out *.mod out of {single,multi}-used-m rules
  kbuild: remove 'prepare1' target
  kbuild: remove the first line of *.mod files
  kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR
  kbuild: export_report: read modules.order instead of .tmp_versions/*.mod
  kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  kbuild: modsign: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  kbuild: modinst: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  scsi: remove pointless $(MODVERDIR)/$(obj)/53c700.ver
  kbuild: remove duplication from modules.order in sub-directories
  kbuild: get rid of kernel/ prefix from in-tree modules.{order,builtin}
  kbuild: do not create empty modules.order in the prepare stage
  coccinelle: api: add devm_platform_ioremap_resource script
  kbuild: compile-test headers listed in header-test-m as well
  kbuild: remove unused hostcc-option
  kbuild: remove tag files by distclean instead of mrproper
  kbuild: add --hash-style= and --build-id unconditionally
  kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from documents
  ...
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - match the directory structure of the linux-libc-dev package to that
   of Debian-based distributions

 - fix incorrect include/config/auto.conf generation when Kconfig
   creates it along with the .config file

 - remove misleading $(AS) from documents

 - clean up precious tag files by distclean instead of mrproper

 - add a new coccinelle patch for devm_platform_ioremap_resource
   migration

 - refactor module-related scripts to read modules.order instead of
   $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod files to get the list of created modules

 - remove MODVERDIR

 - update list of header compile-test

 - add -fcf-protection=none flag to avoid conflict with the retpoline
   flags when CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
  kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags
  kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.3-rc1
  kbuild: split out *.mod out of {single,multi}-used-m rules
  kbuild: remove 'prepare1' target
  kbuild: remove the first line of *.mod files
  kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR
  kbuild: export_report: read modules.order instead of .tmp_versions/*.mod
  kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  kbuild: modsign: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  kbuild: modinst: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
  scsi: remove pointless $(MODVERDIR)/$(obj)/53c700.ver
  kbuild: remove duplication from modules.order in sub-directories
  kbuild: get rid of kernel/ prefix from in-tree modules.{order,builtin}
  kbuild: do not create empty modules.order in the prepare stage
  coccinelle: api: add devm_platform_ioremap_resource script
  kbuild: compile-test headers listed in header-test-m as well
  kbuild: remove unused hostcc-option
  kbuild: remove tag files by distclean instead of mrproper
  kbuild: add --hash-style= and --build-id unconditionally
  kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from documents
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from documents</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T13:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-13T02:45:58+00:00</published>
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The assembler files in the kernel are *.S instead of *.s, so they must
be preprocessed. Since 'as' of GNU binutils is not able to preprocess,
we always use $(CC) as an assembler driver.

$(AS) is almost unused in Kbuild. As of v5.2, there is just one place
that directly invokes $(AS).

  $ git grep -e '$(AS)' -e '${AS}' -e '$AS' -e '$(AS:' -e '${AS:' -- :^Documentation
  drivers/net/wan/Makefile:  AS68K = $(AS)

The documentation about *_AFLAGS* sounds like the flags were passed
to $(AS). This is somewhat misleading.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
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The assembler files in the kernel are *.S instead of *.s, so they must
be preprocessed. Since 'as' of GNU binutils is not able to preprocess,
we always use $(CC) as an assembler driver.

$(AS) is almost unused in Kbuild. As of v5.2, there is just one place
that directly invokes $(AS).

  $ git grep -e '$(AS)' -e '${AS}' -e '$AS' -e '$(AS:' -e '${AS:' -- :^Documentation
  drivers/net/wan/Makefile:  AS68K = $(AS)

The documentation about *_AFLAGS* sounds like the flags were passed
to $(AS). This is somewhat misleading.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T14:03:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T16:25:51+00:00</published>
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The tag ".. include" should be replaced by ".. literalinclude" at
issues.rst, otherwise it causes TeX to crash due to excessive usage
of stack with Sphinx 2.0.

While here, solve a few minor issues at the kbuild book output by
adding extra blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
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The tag ".. include" should be replaced by ".. literalinclude" at
issues.rst, otherwise it causes TeX to crash due to excessive usage
of stack with Sphinx 2.0.

While here, solve a few minor issues at the kbuild book output by
adding extra blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: add some directories to the main documentation index</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T14:03:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-28T11:36:50+00:00</published>
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The contents of those directories were orphaned at the documentation
body.

While those directories could likely be moved to be inside some guide,
I'm opting to just adding their indexes to the main one, removing the
:orphan: and adding the SPDX header.

For the drivers, the rationale is that the documentation contains
a mix of Kernelspace, uAPI and admin-guide. So, better to keep them on
separate directories, as we've be doing with similar subsystem-specific
docs that were not split yet.

For the others, well... I'm too lazy to do the move. Also, it
seems to make sense to keep at least some of those at the main
dir (like kbuild, for example). In any case, a latter patch
could do the move.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
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The contents of those directories were orphaned at the documentation
body.

While those directories could likely be moved to be inside some guide,
I'm opting to just adding their indexes to the main one, removing the
:orphan: and adding the SPDX header.

For the drivers, the rationale is that the documentation contains
a mix of Kernelspace, uAPI and admin-guide. So, better to keep them on
separate directories, as we've be doing with similar subsystem-specific
docs that were not split yet.

For the others, well... I'm too lazy to do the move. Also, it
seems to make sense to keep at least some of those at the main
dir (like kbuild, for example). In any case, a latter patch
could do the move.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T23:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T23:03:16+00:00</published>
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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
  ...
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<pre>
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
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: add a flag to force absolute path for srctree</title>
<updated>2019-07-10T15:05:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-06T03:07:13+00:00</published>
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In old days, Kbuild always used an absolute path for $(srctree).

Since commit 890676c65d69 ("kbuild: Use relative path when building in
the source tree"), $(srctree) is '.' when O= was not passed from the
command line.

Yet, using absolute paths is useful in some cases even without O=, for
instance, to create a cscope file with absolute path tags.

'O=.' was known to work as a workaround to force Kbuild to use absolute
paths even when you are building in the source tree.

Since commit 25b146c5b8ce ("kbuild: allow Kbuild to start from any
directory"), Kbuild is too clever to be tricked. Even if you pass 'O=.'
Kbuild notices you are building in the source tree, then use '.' for
$(srctree).

So, 'make O=. cscope' is no help to create absolute path tags.

We cannot force one or the other according to commit e93bc1a0cab3
("Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope""). Both of
relative path and absolute path have pros and cons.

This commit adds a new flag KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE to allow users to
choose the absolute path for $(srctree).

'make KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE=1 cscope' will work as a replacement of
'make O=. cscope'.

Reported-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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In old days, Kbuild always used an absolute path for $(srctree).

Since commit 890676c65d69 ("kbuild: Use relative path when building in
the source tree"), $(srctree) is '.' when O= was not passed from the
command line.

Yet, using absolute paths is useful in some cases even without O=, for
instance, to create a cscope file with absolute path tags.

'O=.' was known to work as a workaround to force Kbuild to use absolute
paths even when you are building in the source tree.

Since commit 25b146c5b8ce ("kbuild: allow Kbuild to start from any
directory"), Kbuild is too clever to be tricked. Even if you pass 'O=.'
Kbuild notices you are building in the source tree, then use '.' for
$(srctree).

So, 'make O=. cscope' is no help to create absolute path tags.

We cannot force one or the other according to commit e93bc1a0cab3
("Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope""). Both of
relative path and absolute path have pros and cons.

This commit adds a new flag KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE to allow users to
choose the absolute path for $(srctree).

'make KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE=1 cscope' will work as a replacement of
'make O=. cscope'.

Reported-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: support header-test-pattern-y</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T01:10:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-01T00:58:42+00:00</published>
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In my view, most of headers can be self-contained. So, it would be
tedious to add every header to header-test-y explicitly. We usually
end up with "all headers with some exceptions".

There are two types in exceptions:

[1] headers that are never compiled as standalone units

  For examples, include/linux/compiler-gcc.h is not intended for
  direct inclusion. We should always exclude such ones.

[2] headers that are conditionally compiled as standalone units

  Some headers can be compiled only for particular architectures.
  For example, include/linux/arm-cci.h can be compiled only for
  arm/arm64 because it requires &lt;asm/arm-cci.h&gt; to exist.
  Clang can compile include/soc/nps/mtm.h only for arc because
  it contains an arch-specific register in inline assembler.

So, you can write Makefile like this:

  header-test-                += linux/compiler-gcc.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARM)   += linux/arm-cci.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += linux/arm-cci.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARC)   += soc/nps/mtm.h

The new syntax header-test-pattern-y will be useful to specify
"the rest".

The typical usage is like this:

  header-test-pattern-y += */*.h

This will add all the headers in sub-directories to the test coverage,
excluding $(header-test-). In this regards, header-test-pattern-y
behaves like a weaker variant of header-test-y.

Caveat:
The patterns in header-test-pattern-y are prefixed with $(srctree)/$(src)/
but not $(objtree)/$(obj)/. Stale generated headers are often left over
when you traverse the git history without cleaning. Wildcard patterns for
$(objtree) may match to stale headers, which could fail to compile.
One pitfall is $(srctree)/$(src)/ and $(objtree)/$(obj)/ point to the
same directory for in-tree building. So, header-test-pattern-y should
be used with care since it can potentially match to stale headers.

Caveat2:
You could use wildcard for header-test-. For example,

  header-test- += asm-generic/%

... will exclude headers in asm-generic directory. Unfortunately, the
wildcard character is '%' instead of '*' here because this is evaluated
by $(filter-out ...) whereas header-test-pattern-y is evaluated by
$(wildcard ...). This is a kludge, but seems useful in some places...

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
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In my view, most of headers can be self-contained. So, it would be
tedious to add every header to header-test-y explicitly. We usually
end up with "all headers with some exceptions".

There are two types in exceptions:

[1] headers that are never compiled as standalone units

  For examples, include/linux/compiler-gcc.h is not intended for
  direct inclusion. We should always exclude such ones.

[2] headers that are conditionally compiled as standalone units

  Some headers can be compiled only for particular architectures.
  For example, include/linux/arm-cci.h can be compiled only for
  arm/arm64 because it requires &lt;asm/arm-cci.h&gt; to exist.
  Clang can compile include/soc/nps/mtm.h only for arc because
  it contains an arch-specific register in inline assembler.

So, you can write Makefile like this:

  header-test-                += linux/compiler-gcc.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARM)   += linux/arm-cci.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += linux/arm-cci.h
  header-test-$(CONFIG_ARC)   += soc/nps/mtm.h

The new syntax header-test-pattern-y will be useful to specify
"the rest".

The typical usage is like this:

  header-test-pattern-y += */*.h

This will add all the headers in sub-directories to the test coverage,
excluding $(header-test-). In this regards, header-test-pattern-y
behaves like a weaker variant of header-test-y.

Caveat:
The patterns in header-test-pattern-y are prefixed with $(srctree)/$(src)/
but not $(objtree)/$(obj)/. Stale generated headers are often left over
when you traverse the git history without cleaning. Wildcard patterns for
$(objtree) may match to stale headers, which could fail to compile.
One pitfall is $(srctree)/$(src)/ and $(objtree)/$(obj)/ point to the
same directory for in-tree building. So, header-test-pattern-y should
be used with care since it can potentially match to stale headers.

Caveat2:
You could use wildcard for header-test-. For example,

  header-test- += asm-generic/%

... will exclude headers in asm-generic directory. Unfortunately, the
wildcard character is '%' instead of '*' here because this is evaluated
by $(filter-out ...) whereas header-test-pattern-y is evaluated by
$(wildcard ...). This is a kludge, but seems useful in some places...

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: do not create wrappers for header-test-y</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T01:10:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-01T00:58:41+00:00</published>
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header-test-y does not work with headers in sub-directories.

For example, you may want to write a Makefile, like this:

include/linux/Kbuild:

  header-test-y += mtd/nand.h

This entry will create a wrapper include/linux/mtd/nand.hdrtest.c
with the following content:

  #include "mtd/nand.h"

To make this work, we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux to the
header search path. It would be tedious to add ccflags-y.

Instead, we could change the *.hdrtest.c rule to wrap:

  #include "nand.h"

This works for in-tree build since #include "..." searches in the
relative path from the header with this directive. For O=... build,
we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux/mtd to the header search path,
which will be even more tedious.

After all, I thought it would be handier to compile headers directly
without creating wrappers.

I added a new build rule to compile %.h into %.h.s

The target is %.h.s instead of %.h.o because it is slightly faster.
Also, as for GCC, an empty assembly is smaller than an empty object.

I wrote the build rule:

  $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c /dev/null -include $&lt;

instead of:

  $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c $&lt;

Both work fine with GCC, but the latter is bad for Clang.

This comes down to the difference in the -Wunused-function policy.
GCC does not warn about unused 'static inline' functions at all.
Clang does not warn about the ones in included headers, but does
about the ones in the source. So, we should handle headers as
headers, not as source files.

In fact, this has been hidden since commit abb2ea7dfd82 ("compiler,
clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions"), but we
should not rely on that.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
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header-test-y does not work with headers in sub-directories.

For example, you may want to write a Makefile, like this:

include/linux/Kbuild:

  header-test-y += mtd/nand.h

This entry will create a wrapper include/linux/mtd/nand.hdrtest.c
with the following content:

  #include "mtd/nand.h"

To make this work, we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux to the
header search path. It would be tedious to add ccflags-y.

Instead, we could change the *.hdrtest.c rule to wrap:

  #include "nand.h"

This works for in-tree build since #include "..." searches in the
relative path from the header with this directive. For O=... build,
we need to add $(srctree)/include/linux/mtd to the header search path,
which will be even more tedious.

After all, I thought it would be handier to compile headers directly
without creating wrappers.

I added a new build rule to compile %.h into %.h.s

The target is %.h.s instead of %.h.o because it is slightly faster.
Also, as for GCC, an empty assembly is smaller than an empty object.

I wrote the build rule:

  $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c /dev/null -include $&lt;

instead of:

  $(CC) $(c_flags) -S -o $@ -x c $&lt;

Both work fine with GCC, but the latter is bad for Clang.

This comes down to the difference in the -Wunused-function policy.
GCC does not warn about unused 'static inline' functions at all.
Clang does not warn about the ones in included headers, but does
about the ones in the source. So, we should handle headers as
headers, not as source files.

In fact, this has been hidden since commit abb2ea7dfd82 ("compiler,
clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions"), but we
should not rely on that.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: add support for ensuring headers are self-contained</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T10:57:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jani Nikula</name>
<email>jani.nikula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T12:42:48+00:00</published>
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Sometimes it's useful to be able to explicitly ensure certain headers
remain self-contained, i.e. that they are compilable as standalone
units, by including and/or forward declaring everything they depend on.

Add special target header-test-y where individual Makefiles can add
headers to be tested if CONFIG_HEADER_TEST is enabled. This will
generate a dummy C file per header that gets built as part of extra-y.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Sometimes it's useful to be able to explicitly ensure certain headers
remain self-contained, i.e. that they are compilable as standalone
units, by including and/or forward declaring everything they depend on.

Add special target header-test-y where individual Makefiles can add
headers to be tested if CONFIG_HEADER_TEST is enabled. This will
generate a dummy C file per header that gets built as part of extra-y.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove headers_{install,check}_all</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T10:57:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T10:13:55+00:00</published>
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headers_install_all does not make much sense any more because different
architectures export different set of uapi/linux/ headers. As you see
in include/uapi/linux/Kbuild, the installation of a.out.h, kvm.h, and
kvm_para.h is arch-dependent. So, headers_install_all repeats the
installation/removal of them.

If somebody really thinks it is useful to do headers_install for all
architectures, it would be possible by small shell-scripting, but
the top Makefile does not have to provide entry targets just for that
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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headers_install_all does not make much sense any more because different
architectures export different set of uapi/linux/ headers. As you see
in include/uapi/linux/Kbuild, the installation of a.out.h, kvm.h, and
kvm_para.h is arch-dependent. So, headers_install_all repeats the
installation/removal of them.

If somebody really thinks it is useful to do headers_install for all
architectures, it would be possible by small shell-scripting, but
the top Makefile does not have to provide entry targets just for that
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
</pre>
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