Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change 'option defconfig' to the environment variable
   KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST

 - Refactor tinyconfig without using allnoconfig_y

 - Remove 'option allnoconfig_y' syntax

 - Change 'option modules' to 'modules'

 - Do not use /boot/config-* etc. as base config for cross-compilation

 - Fix a search bug in nconf

 - Various code cleanups

* tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kconfig: refactor .gitignore
  kconfig: highlight xconfig 'comment' lines with '***'
  kconfig: highlight gconfig 'comment' lines with '***'
  kconfig: gconf: remove unused code
  kconfig: remove unused PACKAGE definition
  kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops
  kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y
  kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle()
  kconfig: nconf: remove meaningless wattrset() call from show_menu()
  kconfig: nconf: change set_config_filename() to void function
  kconfig: nconf: refactor attributes setup code
  kconfig: nconf: remove unneeded default for menu prompt
  kconfig: nconf: get rid of (void) casts from wattrset() calls
  kconfig: nconf: fix NORMAL attributes
  kconfig: mconf,nconf: remove unneeded '\0' termination after snprintf()
  kconfig: use /boot/config-* etc. as DEFCONFIG_LIST only for native build
  kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag
  kconfig: nconf: fix core dump when searching in empty menu
  kconfig: lxdialog: A spello fix and a punctuation added
  kconfig: streamline_config.pl: Couple of typo fixes
  ...

s/sematics/semantics/

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Now "modules" is the only member of the "option" property.

Remove "option", and move "modules" to the top level property.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Now that the only user, CONFIG_EMBEDDED has stopped using this option,
remove it entirely.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

"defconfig_list" is a weird option that defines a static symbol that
declares the list of base config files in case the .config does not
exist yet.

This is quite different from other normal symbols; we just abused the
"string" type and the "default" properties to list out the input files.
They must be fixed values since these are searched for and loaded in
the parse stage.

It is an ugly hack, and should not exist in the first place. Providing
this feature as an environment variable is a saner approach.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds

 - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz

 - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig

 - Fix misuse of extra-y

 - Support DWARF v5 debug info

 - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x
   exceeded the limit

 - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches

 - Minor cleanups of genksyms

 - Minor cleanups of Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits)
  initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m'
  kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory
  kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree
  kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig
  kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config'
  kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option
  kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue()
  kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf()
  kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value()
  Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string
  Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT
  kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig
  kbuild: remove ld-version macro
  scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh
  scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh
  arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables
  arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work
  gen_compile_commands: prune some directories
  kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version
  ...

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
  qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
  is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).

  The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to
  clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it
  consistent"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits)
  scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal
  scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value
  scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos
  scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated'
  scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables
  scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos
  scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write
  scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals
  scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support
  scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove()
  scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default
  scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep()
  scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe()
  scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL
  scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos
  scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption
  scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check
  scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
  ...

Pull oprofile and dcookies removal from Viresh Kumar:
 "Remove oprofile and dcookies support

  The 'oprofile' user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
  any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
  the perf interfaces.

  The dcookies stuff is only used by the oprofile code. Now that
  oprofile's support is getting removed from the kernel, there is no
  need for dcookies as well.

  Remove kernel's old oprofile and dcookies support"

* tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux:
  fs: Remove dcookies support
  drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: x86: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sparc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sh: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: s390: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: powerpc: Remove oprofile
  arch: powerpc: Stop building and using oprofile
  arch: parisc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: mips: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: microblaze: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support
  arch: ia64: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: hexagon: Don't select HAVE_OPROFILE
  arch: arc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: arm: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support

EXPORT_SYMBOL is unrelated to makefiles. No need to mention it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Python retired in 2020, and some distributions do not provide the
'python' command any more.

As in commit 51839e29cb59 ("scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3"),
we need to use more specific 'python3' to invoke scripts even if they
are written in a way compatible with both Python 2 and 3.

This commit removes the variable 'PYTHON', and switches the existing
users to 'PYTHON3'.

BTW, PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) is a helpful
material.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>