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Peter Oberparleiter 2521f2c228 gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel.  gcov may be useful for:

 * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
 * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
 * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
   associated code is never run?)

The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:

 * change kbuild to include profiling flags
 * provide functions needed by profiling code
 * present profiling data as files in debugfs

Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.

For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 45e3e1935e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
  kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
  kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
  kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
  kallsyms: generalize text region handling
  kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
  documentation: make version fix
  kbuild: fix a compile warning
  gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
  kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
  README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
  vmlinux.lds.h update
  kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
  Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
  kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
  kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
  kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
  ignore *.patch files
  Remove bashisms from scripts
  menu: fix embedded menu presentation
  ...
2009-06-14 14:12:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 07a2039b8e Linux 2.6.30 2009-06-09 20:05:27 -07:00
Cheng Renquan b8b0618cf6 kbuild: remove extra ifdef/endif of top Makefile
The GNU make's origin function know undefined variable well,
so the outer ifdef/endif conditional checking is unneeded.

From `info make` documentation, origin will return

  `undefined'
     if VARIABLE was never defined.
  `command line'
     if VARIABLE was defined on the command line.
   ...

Therefore, $(origin V) will get a value anyway, killing ifdef/endif is
viable and safe.

Furthermore, I've checked the minimal requirements from
Documentation/Changes is GNU make 3.79.1, and that version of GNU make
has support of origin function well already, so now it's safe to kill
the outer conditional checking, without upgrading the minimal
requirements.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crq@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:45 +02:00
Mike Frysinger 08f67461c6 kbuild: fix detection of CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=0
The checking of CONFIG_FRAME_WARN in the top level Makefile forgot to
actually derefence the variable thus leading to an always true check.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04 18:07:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9fa7eb283c Linux 2.6.30-rc8 2009-06-02 20:07:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 59a3759d0f Linux 2.6.30-rc7 2009-05-23 14:47:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1406de8e11 Linux 2.6.30-rc6 2009-05-15 21:12:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 091bf7624d Linux 2.6.30-rc5 2009-05-08 17:14:14 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day c4d5ee67ce kbuild: "make prepare" should be "make modules_prepare"
Correct the Makefile help text to read "make modules_prepare".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-05-01 10:54:01 +02:00
Frédéric Brière 0c56042adc kbuild: clean Module.markers and modules.order for out-of-tree modules
Signed-off-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-05-01 10:54:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 091438dd56 Linux 2.6.30-rc4 2009-04-29 21:48:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0910697403 Linux 2.6.30-rc3 2009-04-21 20:07:00 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg f14875a3e0 kbuild: support include/generated
We need a location for generated files.
Today they are spread over several places and bringing them
together to a common place makes it obvious hat is generated
and what isreal files.

Al Viro originally suggested: include/gen
Linus suggested to spell it out.

This patch implement support for

    include/generated

All files in include/generated are ignored by git.
include/generated is removed during "make mrproper".

With this we are ready to implement support for include/generated
in the various architctures and in the base kernel.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-19 11:12:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0882e8dd3a Linux 2.6.30-rc2 2009-04-14 13:51:48 -07:00
Paul Mundt f499cae1e5 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-04-14 06:29:07 +09:00
David Howells 5d7d18f5bc kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux
Make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux as
they cause vmlinux to balloon when CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y and they cause
dump_stack() and get_wchan() to produce useless information under some
circumstances.

With this we add a config option (CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS) that will cause
the build to supply -X to the linker to tell it to strip temporary local
symbols.

This doesn't seem to cause gdb any problems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-04-11 08:18:10 +02:00
Kirill Smelkov fe8d0a4108 kbuild: fix a few typos in top-level Makefile
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Acked-by: Dmitry Gryazin <gdu@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-04-11 08:18:09 +02:00
Paul Mundt 3cc000b583 sh: Plug in support for ARCH=sh64 using sh SRCARCH.
This adds in support for building with ARCH=sh64 using the sh SRCARCH.
This tidies up the randconfig generation somewhat to make sure that we
don't end up with impossible configurations, and without having to rely
on things like KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG to detect the proper CPU support subset.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-04-11 08:39:27 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 577c9c456f Linux 2.6.30-rc1 2009-04-07 14:25:01 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8e0ee43bc2 Linux 2.6.29 2009-03-23 16:12:14 -07:00
Kyle McMartin 003086497f Build with -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
With a sufficiently new compiler and binutils, code which wasn't
previously generating .eh_frame sections has begun to.  Certain
architectures (powerpc, in this case) may generate unexpected relocation
formats in response to this, preventing modules from loading.

While the new relocation types should probably be handled, revert to the
previous behaviour with regards to generation of .eh_frame sections.

(This was reported against Fedora, which appears to be the only distro
doing any building against gcc-4.4 at present: RH bz#486545.)

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-23 14:21:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d0115552cd Move cc-option to below arch-specific setup
Sam Ravnborg says:
 "We have several architectures that plays strange games with $(CC) and
  $(CROSS_COMPILE).

  So we need to postpone any use of $(call cc-option..) until we have
  included the arch specific Makefile so we try with the correct $(CC)
  version."

Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-19 15:53:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 68df3755e3 Add '-fwrapv' to gcc CFLAGS
This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping
arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie
things like

	if (ptr + offset < ptr)

which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597

for details.

Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional
(it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).

Reminded-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-19 11:10:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 041b62374c Linus 2.6.29-rc8 2009-03-12 19:39:28 -07:00
Gilles Espinasse 75bccd881a kbuild: remove unused -r option for module-init-tool depmod
Following a thread on busybox mailing list
depmod -r option is ignored by module-init-tools depmod
-r option break busybox depmod.

So the best solution look to remove -r from kernel Makefile

Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-03-07 13:57:25 +01:00
Josh Hunt b925dbfe3c kbuild: fix 'make rpm' when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and using SCM tree
Running 'make rpm' fails when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and using a kernel source
tree under SCM.  This is due to KERNELRELEASE being different when the initial make
is run and when make is run from rpmbuild.

mkspec creates kernel.spec using KERNELRELEASE:

<mkspec>
echo "%files"
echo '%defattr (-, root, root)'
echo "%dir /lib/modules"
echo "/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
echo "/lib/firmware"
echo "/boot/*"
echo ""
</mkspec>

When CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y scripts/setlocalversion is called and grabs any
additional version info from SCM.  Next, the srctree is tarred up and SCM
information is excluded.

rpmbuild reruns make and in the process generates a new include/config/kernel.release
and thus a new KERNELRELEASE.  However this time the SCM information is gone so
KERNELRELEASE no longer has the additional version information.  When "make modules_install"
runs, it uses the new KERNELRELEASE value to determine where to install the modules.
This conflicts with where the spec file assumes they are going because of the
mis-matching KERNELRELEASE versions.

<snippet>
+ INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root
+ make -j16 modules_install
  INSTALL crypto/aead.ko
  INSTALL crypto/cbc.ko
  INSTALL crypto/chainiv.ko
  INSTALL crypto/crc32c.ko
  INSTALL crypto/crypto_algapi.ko
  INSTALL crypto/crypto_blkcipher.ko
  INSTALL crypto/crypto_hash.ko
  INSTALL crypto/cryptomgr.ko
  INSTALL crypto/ecb.ko
  INSTALL crypto/eseqiv.ko
  INSTALL crypto/krng.ko
  INSTALL crypto/md5.ko
  INSTALL crypto/pcbc.ko
  INSTALL crypto/rng.ko
  INSTALL drivers/block/cciss.ko
  INSTALL drivers/hid/hid-dummy.ko
  INSTALL drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko
  INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi.ko
  INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi_tcp.ko
  INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.ko
  INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
  INSTALL fs/lockd/lockd.ko
  INSTALL fs/nfs/nfs.ko
  INSTALL fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko
  INSTALL lib/libcrc32c.ko
  INSTALL net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko
  DEPMOD  2.6.29-rc4-tip
+ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
+ cp System.map
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/System.map-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
+ cp .config
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/config-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
+ cp vmlinux vmlinux.orig
+ bzip2 -9 vmlinux
+ mv vmlinux.bz2
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinux-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422.bz2
+ mv vmlinux.orig vmlinux
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
Processing files: kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-2
error: File not found:
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422

RPM build errors:
    File not found:
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422
make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
make: *** [rpm] Error 2
</snippet>

I have tested this patch on git -tip, Linus' git tree, and the kernel.org tar files, both
with and without CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y.

Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <josh@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
----
2009-03-07 13:55:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds fec6c6fec3 Linux 2.6.29-rc7 2009-03-03 17:05:22 -08:00
Ingo Molnar a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 20f4d6c3a2 Linux 2.6.29-rc6 2009-02-22 20:19:40 -08:00
Ingo Molnar fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3b6f7b9beb Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 494df596f9 Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/headers', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/xen'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into x86/core 2009-02-17 12:07:00 +01:00
Andi Kleen 929799973b kbuild: create the source symlink earlier in the objdir
It's useful to already have the source symlink in a
objdir when one just runs make *config. Then one
can do

mkdir obj-allyes
cd obj-allyes
make -C ../sourcedir O=$(pwd) allyesconfig
./source/scripts/config --disable debug_info
make CC=icecc -j18

without having to interrupt the make first just to
get the source symlink.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[sam: deleted the other source symlink statement]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-02-15 12:51:05 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d2f8d7ee1a Linux 2.6.29-rc5 2009-02-13 15:31:30 -08:00
Tejun Heo 5d707e9c8e stackprotector: update make rules
Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup

Stackprotector make rules had the following problems.

* cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and
  kernel/panic.c.

* -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration.

Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile
and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off.  While at
it, prepare for 32bit support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8e4921515c Linux 2.6.29-rc4 2009-02-08 12:37:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 18e352e4a7 Linux 2.6.29-rc3 2009-01-28 10:49:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2034563ca3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos
  kbuild: print usage with no arguments in scripts/config
  Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
2009-01-26 15:10:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ac3d266bf1 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
  m68k,m68knommu: merge header files

Resolve trivial conflict in arch/m68knommu/include/asm/Kbuild
2009-01-26 10:33:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1de9e8e70f Linux 2.6.29-rc2 2009-01-16 12:43:00 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg 49148020bc m68k,m68knommu: merge header files
Merge header files for m68k and m68knommu to the single location:

    arch/m68k/include/asm

The majority of this patch was the result of the
script that is included in the changelog below.

The script was originally written by Arnd Bergman and
exten by me to cover a few more files.

When the header files differed the script uses the following:

The original m68k file is named <file>_mm.h  [mm for memory manager]
The m68knommu file is named <file>_no.h [no for no memory manager]

The files uses the following include guard:

This include gaurd works as the m68knommu toolchain set
the __uClinux__ symbol - so this should work in userspace too.

Merging the header files for m68k and m68knommu exposes the
(unexpected?) ABI differences thus it is easier to actually
identify these and thus to fix them.

The commit has been build tested with both a m68k and
a m68knommu toolchain - with success.

The commit has also been tested with "make headers_check"
and this patch fixes make headers_check for m68knommu.

The script used:
TARGET=arch/m68k/include/asm
SOURCE=arch/m68knommu/include/asm

INCLUDE="cachectl.h errno.h fcntl.h hwtest.h ioctls.h ipcbuf.h \
linkage.h math-emu.h md.h mman.h movs.h msgbuf.h openprom.h \
oplib.h poll.h posix_types.h resource.h rtc.h sembuf.h shmbuf.h \
shm.h shmparam.h socket.h sockios.h spinlock.h statfs.h stat.h \
termbits.h termios.h tlb.h types.h user.h"

EQUAL="auxvec.h cputime.h device.h emergency-restart.h futex.h \
ioctl.h irq_regs.h kdebug.h local.h mutex.h percpu.h \
sections.h topology.h"

NOMUUFILES="anchor.h bootstd.h coldfire.h commproc.h dbg.h \
elia.h flat.h m5206sim.h m520xsim.h m523xsim.h m5249sim.h \
m5272sim.h m527xsim.h m528xsim.h m5307sim.h m532xsim.h \
m5407sim.h m68360_enet.h m68360.h m68360_pram.h m68360_quicc.h \
m68360_regs.h MC68328.h MC68332.h MC68EZ328.h MC68VZ328.h \
mcfcache.h mcfdma.h mcfmbus.h mcfne.h mcfpci.h mcfpit.h \
mcfsim.h mcfsmc.h mcftimer.h mcfuart.h mcfwdebug.h \
nettel.h quicc_simple.h smp.h"

FILES="atomic.h bitops.h bootinfo.h bug.h bugs.h byteorder.h cache.h \
cacheflush.h checksum.h current.h delay.h div64.h \
dma-mapping.h dma.h elf.h entry.h fb.h fpu.h hardirq.h hw_irq.h io.h \
irq.h kmap_types.h machdep.h mc146818rtc.h mmu.h mmu_context.h \
module.h page.h page_offset.h param.h pci.h pgalloc.h \
pgtable.h processor.h ptrace.h scatterlist.h segment.h \
setup.h sigcontext.h siginfo.h signal.h string.h system.h swab.h \
thread_info.h timex.h tlbflush.h traps.h uaccess.h ucontext.h \
unaligned.h unistd.h"

mergefile() {
	BASE=${1%.h}
	git mv ${SOURCE}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_no.h
	git mv ${TARGET}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_mm.h

cat << EOF > ${TARGET}/$1
EOF

	git add ${TARGET}/$1
}

set -e

mkdir -p ${TARGET}

git mv include/asm-m68k/* ${TARGET}
rmdir include/asm-m68k

git rm ${SOURCE}/Kbuild
for F in $INCLUDE $EQUAL; do
	git rm ${SOURCE}/$F
done

for F in $NOMUUFILES; do
	git mv ${SOURCE}/$F ${TARGET}/$F
done

for F in $FILES ; do
	mergefile $F
done

rmdir arch/m68knommu/include/asm
rmdir arch/m68knommu/include

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
2009-01-16 21:58:10 +10:00
Sam Ravnborg 2ea038917b Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
This reverts commit ad7a953c52.

And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
            9bb482476c

These stripping patches has caused a set of issues:

1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
   lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
   Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
   Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
   Reported by: Ted, Davej + others

Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-14 21:38:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c59765042f Linux 2.6.29-rc1 2009-01-10 15:43:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c6906a2cb7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: fix typos (s/bin_shipped/bin.o_shipped/) in Documentation
  kbuild: add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs
  kconfig: add script to manipulate .config files on the command line
  kbuild: reintroduce ALLSOURCE_ARCHS support for tags/cscope
  bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback
  fix modules_install via NFS
  qnx: include <linux/types.h> for definitions of __[us]{8,16,32,64} types
2009-01-07 13:11:28 -08:00
Andi Kleen 399b835be3 kbuild: add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs
I have some scripts which need to map back to the source directory
from an objdir. This was so far done by parsing the Makefile,
but the Makefile format changes occasionally and breaks my scripts
then.

To make this more reliable add a "source" symlink back.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-07 21:44:22 +01:00
Anisse Astier 5a9e67b1a1 trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
Trivial one letter spelling in main Makefile

Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-06 11:32:22 +01:00
Hannes Eder 80a7d1d991 kbuild: disable sparse warning "returning void-valued expression"
The sparse warning -Wreturn-void ("returning void-valued expression")
is off by default, but it is enabled with -Wall, so add
-Wno-return-void to CHECKFLAGS to disable it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:24 +01:00
David S. Miller e3c6d4ee54 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
2008-12-28 20:19:47 -08:00