Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...

Since commit 31847b67bec0 ("kconfig: allow use of relations other than
(in)equality") it is possible to use relational operators in Kconfig
statements. However, those operators give unexpected results when
applied to bool/tristate values:

	(n < y) = y (correct)
	(m < y) = y (correct)
	(n < m) = n (wrong)

This happens because relational operators process bool and tristate
symbols as strings and m sorts before n. It makes little sense to do a
lexicographical compare on bool and tristate values though.

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt states that expression can have
a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2 respectively for calculations).
Let's make it so for relational comparisons with bool/tristate
expressions as well and document them. If at least one symbol is an
actual string then the lexicographical compare works just as before.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Document the preference [1] for new CONFIG options to "default n" (or
not use default at all) in order to minimizes changes to the config,
especially to avoid "make oldconfig" growing unnecessarily from release
to release.

Document the exceptions where it is acceptable to use "default y/m" for
new CONFIG options.

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/18/257

Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
 "A bigger diffstat than usual with the kbuild changes and a tree wide
  fix in the binding documentation.

  Summary:

   - kbuild cleanups and improvements for dtbs

   - Code clean-up of overlay code and fixing for some long standing
     memory leak and race condition in applying overlays

   - Improvements to DT memory usage making sysfs/kobjects optional and
     skipping unflattening of disabled nodes. This is part of kernel
     tinification efforts.

   - Final piece of removing storing the full path for every DT node.
     The prerequisite conversion of printk's to use device_node format
     specifier happened in 4.14.

   - Sync with current upstream dtc. This brings additional checks to
     dtb compiling.

   - Binding doc tree wide removal of leading 0s from examples

   - RTC binding documentation adding missing devices and some
     consolidation of duplicated bindings

   - Vendor prefix documentation for nutsboard, Silicon Storage
     Technology, shimafuji, Tecon Microprocessor Technologies, DH
     electronics GmbH, Opal Kelly, and Next Thing"

* tag 'devicetree-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (55 commits)
  dt-bindings: usb: add #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
  dt-bindings: Remove leading zeros from bindings notation
  kbuild: handle dtb-y and CONFIG_OF_ALL_DTBS natively in Makefile.lib
  MIPS: dts: remove bogus bcm96358nb4ser.dtb from dtb-y entry
  kbuild: clean up *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns from top-level Makefile
  .gitignore: move *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns to the top-level .gitignore
  .gitignore: sort normal pattern rules alphabetically
  dt-bindings: add vendor prefix for Next Thing Co.
  scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.4.5-6-gc1e55a5513e9
  of: dynamic: fix memory leak related to properties of __of_node_dup
  of: overlay: make pr_err() string unique
  of: overlay: pr_err from return NOTIFY_OK to overlay apply/remove
  of: overlay: remove unneeded check for NULL kbasename()
  of: overlay: remove a dependency on device node full_name
  of: overlay: simplify applying symbols from an overlay
  of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays
  of: overlay: loosen overly strict phandle clash check
  of: overlay: expand check of whether overlay changeset can be removed
  of: overlay: detect cases where device tree may become corrupt
  of: overlay: minor restructuring
  ...

We need to add "clean-files" in Makfiles to clean up DT blobs, but we
often miss to do so.

Since there are no source files that end with .dtb or .dtb.S, so we
can clean-up those files from the top-level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

It does several fixes:
1. move the displaced ld example to its reasonable place.
2. add new example for command gzip.
3. fix 2 number errors.
4. fix format of chapter 7.x, make it looks the same as other chapters.

Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Update the ccflags-y example to match current usage.

Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.

  THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
  only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
  intermediate-artifact schemes.

  Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
  various advantages:

   - save disk space for builds

   - speed-up building a little

   - fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
     flexibility for the final linking

   - work better with dead code elimination we are planning

  As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
  that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".

  With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
  showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"

* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
  kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
  x86/um: thin archives build fix
  tile: thin archives fix linking
  ia64: thin archives fix linking
  sh: thin archives fix linking
  kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
  kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
  kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
  ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
  tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
  sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Clean up Makefiles and scripts

 - Improve clang support

 - Remove unneeded genhdr-y syntax

 - Remove unneeded cc-option-align macro

 - Introduce __cc-option macro and use it to fix x86 boot code compiler
   flags

* tag 'kbuild-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: improve comments on KBUILD_SRC
  x86/build: Specify stack alignment for clang
  x86/build: Use __cc-option for boot code compiler options
  kbuild: Add __cc-option macro
  kbuild: remove cc-option-align
  kbuild: replace genhdr-y with generated-y
  kbuild: clang: Disable 'address-of-packed-member' warning
  kbuild: remove duplicated arch/*/include/generated/uapi include path
  kbuild: speed up checksyscalls.sh
  kbuild: simplify silent build (-s) detection

The thin archives build currently puts all lib.a and built-in.o
files together and links them with --whole-archive.

This works because thin archives can recursively refer to thin
archives. However some architectures include libgcc.a, which may
not be a thin archive, or it may not be constructed with the "P"
option, in which case its contents do not get linked correctly.

So don't pull .a libs into the root built-in.o archive. These
libs should already have symbol tables and indexes built, so they
can be direct linker inputs. Move them out of the --whole-archive
option, which restore the conditional linking behaviour of lib.a
to thin archives builds.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>