linux.git/Makefile, branch v5.9-rc2

Linux 5.9-rc2

2020-08-23T21:08:43+00:00

kbuild: remove redundant patterns in filter/filter-out

2020-08-18T11:16:46+00:00

The '%' in filter/filter-out matches to any number of any characters,
including empty string.

So, '%config' matches to 'config', and '%install' to 'install'.

Drop the redundant patterns.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Linux 5.9-rc1

2020-08-16T20:04:57+00:00

./Makefile: add debug option to enable function aligned on 32 bytes

2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00

Recently 0day reported many strange performance changes (regression or
improvement), in which there was no obvious relation between the culprit
commit and the benchmark at the first look, and it causes people to doubt
the test itself is wrong.

Upon further check, many of these cases are caused by the change to the
alignment of kernel text or data, as whole text/data of kernel are linked
together, change in one domain may affect alignments of other domains.

gcc has an option '-falign-functions=n' to force text aligned, and with
that option enabled, some of those performance changes will be gone, like
[1][2][3].

Add this option so that developers and 0day can easily find performance
bump caused by text alignment change, as tracking these strange bump is
quite time consuming.  Though it can't help in other cases like data
alignment changes like [4].

Following is some size data for v5.7 kernel built with a RHEL config used
in 0day:

    text      data      bss	 dec	   filename
  19738771  13292906  5554236  38585913	 vmlinux.noalign
  19758591  13297002  5529660  38585253	 vmlinux.align32

Raw vmlinux size in bytes:

	v5.7		v5.7+align32
	253950832	254018000	+0.02%

Some benchmark data, most of them have no big change:

  * hackbench:		[ -1.8%,  +0.5%]

  * fsmark:		[ -3.2%,  +3.4%]  # ext4/xfs/btrfs

  * kbuild:		[ -2.0%,  +0.9%]

  * will-it-scale:	[ -0.5%,  +1.8%]  # mmap1/pagefault3

  * netperf:
    - TCP_CRR		[+16.6%, +97.4%]
    - TCP_RR		[-18.5%,  -1.8%]
    - TCP_STREAM	[ -1.1%,  +1.9%]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200114085637.GA29297@shao2-debian/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200330011254.GA14393@feng-iot/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1d98d1f0-fe84-6df7-f5bd-f4cb2cdb7f45@intel.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200205123216.GO12867@shao2-debian/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1595475001-90945-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2020-08-09T21:10:26+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler

kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base

2020-08-09T16:32:59+00:00

Commit d26e94149276 ("kbuild: no gcc-plugins during cc-option tests")
was neeeded because scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins was too early.

This is unneeded by including scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins last,
and being careful to not add cc-option tests after it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled

2020-08-09T16:32:59+00:00

Currently, the top Makefile includes all of scripts/Makefile.
even if the associated CONFIG option is disabled.

Do not include unneeded Makefiles in order to slightly optimize the
parse stage.

Include $(include-y), and ignore $(include-).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux

2020-08-09T16:32:58+00:00

When you clean the build tree for ARCH=arm, you may see the following
error message from 'nm' command:

$ make -j24 ARCH=arm clean
  CLEAN   arch/arm/crypto
  CLEAN   arch/arm/kernel
  CLEAN   arch/arm/mach-at91
  CLEAN   arch/arm/mach-omap2
  CLEAN   arch/arm/vdso
  CLEAN   certs
  CLEAN   lib
  CLEAN   usr
  CLEAN   net/wireless
  CLEAN   drivers/firmware/efi/libstub
nm: 'arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux': No such file
/bin/sh: 1: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " "
  CLEAN   arch/arm/boot/compressed
  CLEAN   drivers/scsi
  CLEAN   drivers/tty/vt
  CLEAN   arch/arm/boot
  CLEAN   vmlinux.symvers modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo

Even if you rerun the same command, the error message will not be
shown despite vmlinux is already gone.

To reproduce it, the parallel option -j is needed. Single thread
cleaning always executes 'archclean', 'vmlinuxclean' in this order,
so vmlinux still exists when arch/arm/boot/compressed/ is cleaned.

Looking at arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile does not help understand
the reason of the error message. Both KBSS_SZ and LDFLAGS_vmlinux are
assigned with '=' operator, hence, they are not expanded unless used.
Obviously, 'make clean' does not use them.

In fact, the root cause exists in the top Makefile:

  export LDFLAGS_vmlinux

Since LDFLAGS_vmlinux is an exported variable, LDFLAGS_vmlinux in
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile is expanded when scripts/Makefile.clean
has a command to execute. This is why the error message shows up only
when there exist build artifacts in arch/arm/boot/compressed/.

Adding 'unexport LDFLAGS_vmlinux' to arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
will fix it as far as ARCH=arm is concerned, but I think the proper fix
is to get rid of 'export LDFLAGS_vmlinux' from the top Makefile.

LDFLAGS_vmlinux in the top Makefile contains linker flags for the top
vmlinux. LDFLAGS_vmlinux in arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile is for
arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux. They just happen to have the same
variable name, but are used for different purposes. Stop shadowing
LDFLAGS_vmlinux.

This commit passes LDFLAGS_vmlinux to scripts/link-vmlinux.sh via a
command line parameter instead of via an environment variable. LD and
KBUILD_LDFLAGS are exported, but I did the same for consistency. Anyway,
they must be included in cmd_link-vmlinux to allow if_changed to detect
the changes in LD or KBUILD_LDFLAGS.

The following Makefiles are not affected:

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/h8300/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/nios2/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/s390/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/romimage/Makefile
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

They use ':=' or '=' to clear the LDFLAGS_vmlinux inherited from the
top Makefile.

We need to take a closer look at the impact to unicore32 and xtensa.

arch/unicore32/boot/compressed/Makefile only uses '+=' operator for
LDFLAGS_vmlinux. So, the decompressor previously inherited the linker
flags from the top Makefile.

However, commit 70fac51feaf2 ("unicore32 additional architecture files:
boot process") was merged before commit 1f2bfbd00e46 ("kbuild: link of
vmlinux moved to a script"). So, I rather consider this is a bug fix of
1f2bfbd00e46.

arch/xtensa/boot/boot-elf/Makefile is also affected, but this is also
considered a fix for the same reason. It did not inherit LDFLAGS_vmlinux
when commit 4bedea945451 ("[PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for
Tensilica Xtensa Part 2") was merged. I deleted $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux),
which is now empty.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2020-08-06T03:13:21+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
    Kulkarni.

 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
    from Po Liu.

 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.

 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
    Vazquez.

 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
    Yonghong Song.

 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
    devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.

 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.

10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.

11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
    maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.

12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
    Gupta.

13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
    Yakunin.

14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.

15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
    Tenart.

16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.

17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.

18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.

19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
    drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.

20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.

21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.

22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.

23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.

24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.

25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
    infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.

26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.

27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.

28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.

29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
    avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.

30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.

31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.

33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.

34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.

35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
    Brivio.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
  net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
  usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
  usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
  hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
  ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
  selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
  mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
  selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
  net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
  tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address
  ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
  net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
  Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
  ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
  farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
  dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
  ...

Merge tag 'var-init-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2020-08-04T20:38:35+00:00

Pull automatic variable initialization updates from Kees Cook:
 "This adds the "zero" init option from Clang, which is being used
  widely in production builds of Android and Chrome OS (though it also
  keeps the "pattern" init, which is better for debug builds).

   - Introduce CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO (Alexander Potapenko)"

* tag 'var-init-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  security: allow using Clang's zero initialization for stack variables