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<title>linux.git/Documentation/kbuild, branch v6.9</title>
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<title>Documentation/llvm: Note s390 LLVM=1 support with LLVM 18.1.0 and newer</title>
<updated>2024-03-31T12:09:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-27T17:20:36+00:00</published>
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As of the first s390 pull request during the 6.9 merge window,
commit 691632f0e869 ("Merge tag 's390-6.9-1' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux"), s390 can be
built with LLVM=1 when using LLVM 18.1.0, which is the first version
that has SystemZ support implemented in ld.lld and llvm-objcopy.

Update the supported architectures table in the Kbuild LLVM
documentation to note this explicitly to make it more discoverable by
users and other developers. Additionally, this brings s390 in line with
the rest of the architectures in the table, which all support LLVM=1.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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As of the first s390 pull request during the 6.9 merge window,
commit 691632f0e869 ("Merge tag 's390-6.9-1' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux"), s390 can be
built with LLVM=1 when using LLVM 18.1.0, which is the first version
that has SystemZ support implemented in ld.lld and llvm-objcopy.

Update the supported architectures table in the Kbuild LLVM
documentation to note this explicitly to make it more discoverable by
users and other developers. Additionally, this brings s390 in line with
the rest of the architectures in the table, which all support LLVM=1.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kconfig: remove named choice support</title>
<updated>2024-03-10T04:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-03T04:00:35+00:00</published>
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Commit 5a1aa8a1aff6 ("kconfig: add named choice group") did not provide
enough explanation regarding its benefits. A use case was found in
another project [1] sometime later, this feature has never been used in
the kernel.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/201012150034.01356.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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Commit 5a1aa8a1aff6 ("kconfig: add named choice group") did not provide
enough explanation regarding its benefits. A use case was found in
another project [1] sometime later, this feature has never been used in
the kernel.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/201012150034.01356.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: kbuild/kconfig: reformat/cleanup</title>
<updated>2024-02-19T09:20:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T12:58:30+00:00</published>
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This document was using headings in an odd way, causing the sidebar to be
quite messy. I've adding new headings and turned some of the old headings
into description lists.

The indentation was a mix of spaces and tabs; I've turned them all into
4 spaces so it always reads correctly regardless of tab settings.

Also use ``...`` instead of `...`; the difference is that `` is meant
for "inline literals" (and renders in a monospace font) while ` is for
"interpreted text" (and renders with italics).

Also changed the title of the document to be more descriptive.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This document was using headings in an odd way, causing the sidebar to be
quite messy. I've adding new headings and turned some of the old headings
into description lists.

The indentation was a mix of spaces and tabs; I've turned them all into
4 spaces so it always reads correctly regardless of tab settings.

Also use ``...`` instead of `...`; the difference is that `` is meant
for "inline literals" (and renders in a monospace font) while ` is for
"interpreted text" (and renders with italics).

Also changed the title of the document to be more descriptive.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: kconfig: Fix grammar and formatting</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T21:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@toblux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-10T15:20:04+00:00</published>
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- Remove unnecessary spaces
- Fix grammar s/to solution/solution/

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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- Remove unnecessary spaces
- Fix grammar s/to solution/solution/

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-11-04T18:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-04T18:07:19+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Implement the binary search in modpost for faster symbol lookup

 - Respect HOSTCC when linking host programs written in Rust

 - Change the binrpm-pkg target to generate kernel-devel RPM package

 - Fix endianness issues for tee and ishtp MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

 - Unify vdso_install rules

 - Remove unused __memexit* annotations

 - Eliminate stale whitelisting for __devinit/__devexit from modpost

 - Enable dummy-tools to handle the -fpatchable-function-entry flag

 - Add 'userldlibs' syntax

* tag 'kbuild-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (30 commits)
  kbuild: support 'userldlibs' syntax
  kbuild: dummy-tools: pretend we understand -fpatchable-function-entry
  kbuild: Correct missing architecture-specific hyphens
  modpost: squash ALL_{INIT,EXIT}_TEXT_SECTIONS to ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS
  modpost: merge sectioncheck table entries regarding init/exit sections
  modpost: use ALL_INIT_SECTIONS for the section check from DATA_SECTIONS
  modpost: disallow the combination of EXPORT_SYMBOL and __meminit*
  modpost: remove EXIT_SECTIONS macro
  modpost: remove MEM_INIT_SECTIONS macro
  modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the section check whitelist
  modpost: disallow *driver to reference .meminit* sections
  linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations
  modpost: remove ALL_EXIT_DATA_SECTIONS macro
  kbuild: simplify cmd_ld_multi_m
  kbuild: avoid too many execution of scripts/pahole-flags.sh
  kbuild: remove ARCH_POSTLINK from module builds
  kbuild: unify no-compiler-targets and no-sync-config-targets
  kbuild: unify vdso_install rules
  docs: kbuild: add INSTALL_DTBS_PATH
  UML: remove unused cmd_vdso_install
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Implement the binary search in modpost for faster symbol lookup

 - Respect HOSTCC when linking host programs written in Rust

 - Change the binrpm-pkg target to generate kernel-devel RPM package

 - Fix endianness issues for tee and ishtp MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

 - Unify vdso_install rules

 - Remove unused __memexit* annotations

 - Eliminate stale whitelisting for __devinit/__devexit from modpost

 - Enable dummy-tools to handle the -fpatchable-function-entry flag

 - Add 'userldlibs' syntax

* tag 'kbuild-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (30 commits)
  kbuild: support 'userldlibs' syntax
  kbuild: dummy-tools: pretend we understand -fpatchable-function-entry
  kbuild: Correct missing architecture-specific hyphens
  modpost: squash ALL_{INIT,EXIT}_TEXT_SECTIONS to ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS
  modpost: merge sectioncheck table entries regarding init/exit sections
  modpost: use ALL_INIT_SECTIONS for the section check from DATA_SECTIONS
  modpost: disallow the combination of EXPORT_SYMBOL and __meminit*
  modpost: remove EXIT_SECTIONS macro
  modpost: remove MEM_INIT_SECTIONS macro
  modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the section check whitelist
  modpost: disallow *driver to reference .meminit* sections
  linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations
  modpost: remove ALL_EXIT_DATA_SECTIONS macro
  kbuild: simplify cmd_ld_multi_m
  kbuild: avoid too many execution of scripts/pahole-flags.sh
  kbuild: remove ARCH_POSTLINK from module builds
  kbuild: unify no-compiler-targets and no-sync-config-targets
  kbuild: unify vdso_install rules
  docs: kbuild: add INSTALL_DTBS_PATH
  UML: remove unused cmd_vdso_install
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: support 'userldlibs' syntax</title>
<updated>2023-11-01T14:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T18:11:57+00:00</published>
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This syntax is useful to specify libraries linked to all userspace
programs in the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This syntax is useful to specify libraries linked to all userspace
programs in the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: kbuild: add INSTALL_DTBS_PATH</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T08:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo B. Marliere</name>
<email>ricardo@marliere.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-12T10:54:21+00:00</published>
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The documentation for kbuild and makefiles is missing an explanation of
a variable important for some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere &lt;ricardo@marliere.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The documentation for kbuild and makefiles is missing an explanation of
a variable important for some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere &lt;ricardo@marliere.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: kbuild: explain handling optional dependencies</title>
<updated>2023-09-25T07:01:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-17T19:19:59+00:00</published>
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This problem frequently comes up in randconfig testing, with
drivers failing to link because of a dependency on an optional
feature.

The Kconfig language for this is very confusing, so try to
document it in "Kconfig hints" section.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javierm@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This problem frequently comes up in randconfig testing, with
drivers failing to link because of a dependency on an optional
feature.

The Kconfig language for this is very confusing, so try to
document it in "Kconfig hints" section.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javierm@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T17:32:57+00:00</published>
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Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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