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<title>Linux 5.8-rc2</title>
<updated>2020-06-21T22:45:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-21T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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<title>Revert "Makefile: install modules.builtin even if CONFIG_MODULES=n"</title>
<updated>2020-06-21T15:19:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit e0b250b57dcf403529081e5898a9de717f96b76b,
which broke build systems that need to install files to a certain
path, but do not set INSTALL_MOD_PATH when invoking 'make install'.

  $ make INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/destdir install
  mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/lib/modules/5.8.0-rc1+/’: Permission denied
  Makefile:1342: recipe for target '_builtin_inst_' failed
  make: *** [_builtin_inst_] Error 1

While modules.builtin is useful also for CONFIG_MODULES=n, this change
in the behavior is quite unexpected. Maybe "make modules_install"
can install modules.builtin irrespective of CONFIG_MODULES as Jonas
originally suggested.

Anyway, that commit should be reverted ASAP.

Reported-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Karlman &lt;jonas@kwiboo.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
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This reverts commit e0b250b57dcf403529081e5898a9de717f96b76b,
which broke build systems that need to install files to a certain
path, but do not set INSTALL_MOD_PATH when invoking 'make install'.

  $ make INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/destdir install
  mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/lib/modules/5.8.0-rc1+/’: Permission denied
  Makefile:1342: recipe for target '_builtin_inst_' failed
  make: *** [_builtin_inst_] Error 1

While modules.builtin is useful also for CONFIG_MODULES=n, this change
in the behavior is quite unexpected. Maybe "make modules_install"
can install modules.builtin irrespective of CONFIG_MODULES as Jonas
originally suggested.

Anyway, that commit should be reverted ASAP.

Reported-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Karlman &lt;jonas@kwiboo.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: Improve compressed debug info support detection</title>
<updated>2020-06-15T01:26:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T22:03:39+00:00</published>
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Commit
  10e68b02c861 ("Makefile: support compressed debug info")
added support for compressed debug sections.

Support is detected by checking
- does the compiler support -gz=zlib
- does the assembler support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib
- does the linker support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib

However, the gcc driver's support for this option is somewhat
convoluted. The driver's builtin specs are set based on the version of
binutils that it was configured with. It reports an error if the
configure-time linker/assembler (i.e., not necessarily the actual
assembler that will be run) do not support the option, but only if the
assembler (or linker) is actually invoked when -gz=zlib is passed.

The cc-option check in scripts/Kconfig.include does not invoke the
assembler, so the gcc driver reports success even if it does not support
the option being passed to the assembler.

Because the as-option check passes the option directly to the assembler
via -Wa,--compressed-debug-sections=zlib, the gcc driver does not see
this option and will never report an error.

Combined with an installed version of binutils that is more recent than
the one the compiler was built with, it is possible for all three tests
to succeed, yet an actual compilation with -gz=zlib to fail.

Moreover, it is unnecessary to explicitly pass
--compressed-debug-sections=zlib to the assembler via -Wa, since the
driver will do that automatically when it supports -gz=zlib.

Convert the as-option to just -gz=zlib, simplifying it as well as
performing a better test of the gcc driver's capabilities.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit
  10e68b02c861 ("Makefile: support compressed debug info")
added support for compressed debug sections.

Support is detected by checking
- does the compiler support -gz=zlib
- does the assembler support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib
- does the linker support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib

However, the gcc driver's support for this option is somewhat
convoluted. The driver's builtin specs are set based on the version of
binutils that it was configured with. It reports an error if the
configure-time linker/assembler (i.e., not necessarily the actual
assembler that will be run) do not support the option, but only if the
assembler (or linker) is actually invoked when -gz=zlib is passed.

The cc-option check in scripts/Kconfig.include does not invoke the
assembler, so the gcc driver reports success even if it does not support
the option being passed to the assembler.

Because the as-option check passes the option directly to the assembler
via -Wa,--compressed-debug-sections=zlib, the gcc driver does not see
this option and will never report an error.

Combined with an installed version of binutils that is more recent than
the one the compiler was built with, it is possible for all three tests
to succeed, yet an actual compilation with -gz=zlib to fail.

Moreover, it is unnecessary to explicitly pass
--compressed-debug-sections=zlib to the assembler via -Wa, since the
driver will do that automatically when it supports -gz=zlib.

Convert the as-option to just -gz=zlib, simplifying it as well as
performing a better test of the gcc driver's capabilities.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Linux 5.8-rc1</title>
<updated>2020-06-14T19:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-14T19:45:04+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2020-06-13T20:29:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-13T20:29:16+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix build rules in binderfs sample

 - fix build errors when Kbuild recurses to the top Makefile

 - covert '---help---' in Kconfig to 'help'

* tag 'kbuild-v5.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'
  kbuild: fix broken builds because of GZIP,BZIP2,LZOP variables
  samples: binderfs: really compile this sample and fix build issues
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix build rules in binderfs sample

 - fix build errors when Kbuild recurses to the top Makefile

 - covert '---help---' in Kconfig to 'help'

* tag 'kbuild-v5.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'
  kbuild: fix broken builds because of GZIP,BZIP2,LZOP variables
  samples: binderfs: really compile this sample and fix build issues
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rebase locking/kcsan to locking/urgent</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T18:02:46+00:00</published>
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Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once()
and the atomics modifications got merged.

Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic
fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is
preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once()
and the atomics modifications got merged.

Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic
fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is
preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix broken builds because of GZIP,BZIP2,LZOP variables</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T11:14:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>efremov@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-08T09:59:44+00:00</published>
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Redefine GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP variables as KGZIP, KBZIP2, KLZOP resp.
GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP env variables are reserved by the tools. The original
attempt to redefine them internally doesn't work in makefiles/scripts
intercall scenarios, e.g., "make GZIP=gzip bindeb-pkg" and results in
broken builds. There can be other broken build commands because of this,
so the universal solution is to use non-reserved env variables for the
compression tools.

Fixes: 8dfb61dcbace ("kbuild: add variables for compression tools")
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Redefine GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP variables as KGZIP, KBZIP2, KLZOP resp.
GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP env variables are reserved by the tools. The original
attempt to redefine them internally doesn't work in makefiles/scripts
intercall scenarios, e.g., "make GZIP=gzip bindeb-pkg" and results in
broken builds. There can be other broken build commands because of this,
so the universal solution is to use non-reserved env variables for the
compression tools.

Fixes: 8dfb61dcbace ("kbuild: add variables for compression tools")
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2020-06-06T19:00:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-06T19:00:25+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix warnings in 'make clean' for ARCH=um, hexagon, h8300, unicore32

 - ensure to rebuild all objects when the compiler is upgraded

 - exclude system headers from dependency tracking and fixdep processing

 - fix potential bit-size mismatch between the kernel and BPF user-mode
   helper

 - add the new syntax 'userprogs' to build user-space programs for the
   target architecture (the same arch as the kernel)

 - compile user-space sample code under samples/ for the target arch
   instead of the host arch

 - make headers_install fail if a CONFIG option is leaked to user-space

 - sanitize the output format of scripts/checkstack.pl

 - handle ARM 'push' instruction in scripts/checkstack.pl

 - error out before modpost if a module name conflict is found

 - error out when multiple directories are passed to M= because this
   feature is broken for a long time

 - add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED to support compressed debug info

 - a lot of cleanups of modpost

 - dump vmlinux symbols out into vmlinux.symvers, and reuse it in the
   second pass of modpost

 - do not run the second pass of modpost if nothing in modules is
   updated

 - install modules.builtin(.modinfo) by 'make install' as well as by
   'make modules_install' because it is useful even when
   CONFIG_MODULES=n

 - add new command line variables, GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP, LZMA, LZ4, and XZ
   to allow users to use alternatives such as pigz, pbzip2, etc.

* tag 'kbuild-v5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (96 commits)
  kbuild: add variables for compression tools
  Makefile: install modules.builtin even if CONFIG_MODULES=n
  mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of '.L' symbols in System.map
  kbuild: doc: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  modpost: change elf_info-&gt;size to size_t
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() helper
  modpost: strip .o from modname before calling new_module()
  modpost: set have_vmlinux in new_module()
  modpost: remove mod-&gt;skip struct member
  modpost: add mod-&gt;is_vmlinux struct member
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() call in check_for_{gpl_usage,unused}()
  modpost: remove mod-&gt;is_dot_o struct member
  modpost: move -d option in scripts/Makefile.modpost
  modpost: remove -s option
  modpost: remove get_next_text() and make {grab,release_}file static
  modpost: use read_text_file() and get_line() for reading text files
  modpost: avoid false-positive file open error
  modpost: fix potential mmap'ed file overrun in get_src_version()
  modpost: add read_text_file() and get_line() helpers
  modpost: do not call get_modinfo() for vmlinux(.o)
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix warnings in 'make clean' for ARCH=um, hexagon, h8300, unicore32

 - ensure to rebuild all objects when the compiler is upgraded

 - exclude system headers from dependency tracking and fixdep processing

 - fix potential bit-size mismatch between the kernel and BPF user-mode
   helper

 - add the new syntax 'userprogs' to build user-space programs for the
   target architecture (the same arch as the kernel)

 - compile user-space sample code under samples/ for the target arch
   instead of the host arch

 - make headers_install fail if a CONFIG option is leaked to user-space

 - sanitize the output format of scripts/checkstack.pl

 - handle ARM 'push' instruction in scripts/checkstack.pl

 - error out before modpost if a module name conflict is found

 - error out when multiple directories are passed to M= because this
   feature is broken for a long time

 - add CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED to support compressed debug info

 - a lot of cleanups of modpost

 - dump vmlinux symbols out into vmlinux.symvers, and reuse it in the
   second pass of modpost

 - do not run the second pass of modpost if nothing in modules is
   updated

 - install modules.builtin(.modinfo) by 'make install' as well as by
   'make modules_install' because it is useful even when
   CONFIG_MODULES=n

 - add new command line variables, GZIP, BZIP2, LZOP, LZMA, LZ4, and XZ
   to allow users to use alternatives such as pigz, pbzip2, etc.

* tag 'kbuild-v5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (96 commits)
  kbuild: add variables for compression tools
  Makefile: install modules.builtin even if CONFIG_MODULES=n
  mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of '.L' symbols in System.map
  kbuild: doc: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  modpost: change elf_info-&gt;size to size_t
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() helper
  modpost: strip .o from modname before calling new_module()
  modpost: set have_vmlinux in new_module()
  modpost: remove mod-&gt;skip struct member
  modpost: add mod-&gt;is_vmlinux struct member
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() call in check_for_{gpl_usage,unused}()
  modpost: remove mod-&gt;is_dot_o struct member
  modpost: move -d option in scripts/Makefile.modpost
  modpost: remove -s option
  modpost: remove get_next_text() and make {grab,release_}file static
  modpost: use read_text_file() and get_line() for reading text files
  modpost: avoid false-positive file open error
  modpost: fix potential mmap'ed file overrun in get_src_version()
  modpost: add read_text_file() and get_line() helpers
  modpost: do not call get_modinfo() for vmlinux(.o)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: add variables for compression tools</title>
<updated>2020-06-06T14:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>efremov@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T07:39:55+00:00</published>
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Allow user to use alternative implementations of compression tools,
such as pigz, pbzip2, pxz. For example, multi-threaded tools to
speed up the build:
$ make GZIP=pigz BZIP2=pbzip2

Variables _GZIP, _BZIP2, _LZOP are used internally because original env
vars are reserved by the tools. The use of GZIP in gzip tool is obsolete
since 2015. However, alternative implementations (e.g., pigz) still rely
on it. BZIP2, BZIP, LZOP vars are not obsolescent.

The credit goes to @grsecurity.

As a sidenote, for multi-threaded lzma, xz compression one can use:
$ export XZ_OPT="--threads=0"

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow user to use alternative implementations of compression tools,
such as pigz, pbzip2, pxz. For example, multi-threaded tools to
speed up the build:
$ make GZIP=pigz BZIP2=pbzip2

Variables _GZIP, _BZIP2, _LZOP are used internally because original env
vars are reserved by the tools. The use of GZIP in gzip tool is obsolete
since 2015. However, alternative implementations (e.g., pigz) still rely
on it. BZIP2, BZIP, LZOP vars are not obsolescent.

The credit goes to @grsecurity.

As a sidenote, for multi-threaded lzma, xz compression one can use:
$ export XZ_OPT="--threads=0"

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: install modules.builtin even if CONFIG_MODULES=n</title>
<updated>2020-06-06T14:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Zeiger</name>
<email>jonas.zeiger@talpidae.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T13:34:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e0b250b57dcf403529081e5898a9de717f96b76b'/>
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Many applications check for available kernel features via:

  - /proc/modules (loaded modules, present if CONFIG_MODULES=y)
  - $(MODLIB)/modules.builtin (builtin modules)

They fail to detect features if the kernel was built with CONFIG_MODULES=n
and modules.builtin isn't installed.

Therefore, add the target "_builtin_inst_" and make "install" and
"modules_install" depend on it.

Tests results:

  - make install: kernel image is copied as before, modules.builtin copied
  - make modules_install: (CONFIG_MODULES=n) nothing is copied, exit 1

Signed-off-by: Jonas Zeiger &lt;jonas.zeiger@talpidae.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Many applications check for available kernel features via:

  - /proc/modules (loaded modules, present if CONFIG_MODULES=y)
  - $(MODLIB)/modules.builtin (builtin modules)

They fail to detect features if the kernel was built with CONFIG_MODULES=n
and modules.builtin isn't installed.

Therefore, add the target "_builtin_inst_" and make "install" and
"modules_install" depend on it.

Tests results:

  - make install: kernel image is copied as before, modules.builtin copied
  - make modules_install: (CONFIG_MODULES=n) nothing is copied, exit 1

Signed-off-by: Jonas Zeiger &lt;jonas.zeiger@talpidae.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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