Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
  1. Apr 29, 2013
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized when building with -Os · e74fc973
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      gcc-4.7 and higher add a lot of false positive warnings about
      potential uses of uninitialized warnings, but only when optimizing
      for size (-Os). This is the default when building allyesconfig,
      which turns on CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE.
      
      In order to avoid getting a lot of patches that initialize such
      variables and accidentally hide real errors along the way, let's
      just turn off this warning on the respective gcc versions
      when building with size optimizations. The -Wmaybe-uninitialized
      option was introduced in the same gcc version (4.7) that is now
      causing the false positives, so there is no effect on older compilers.
      
      A side effect is that when building with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE,
      we might now see /fewer/ warnings about possibly uninitialized
      warnings than with -O2, but that is still much better than seeing
      warnings known to be bogus.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      e74fc973
  2. Mar 31, 2013
  3. Mar 23, 2013
  4. Mar 17, 2013
  5. Mar 10, 2013
  6. Mar 03, 2013
  7. Feb 22, 2013
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      Kbuild: Disable var tracking with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED · e82c4bb8
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      Newer gcc enables the var-tracking pass with -g to keep track which
      registers contain which variables. This is one of the slower passes in gcc.
      
      With reduced debug info (aimed at objdump -S, but not using a full debugger)
      we don't need this fine grained tracking. But it was still enabled
      because -g was enabled. Disable it explicitely for DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED.
      
      On my 8T workstation this gives me about a 12 second gain in building
      a reasonable kernel config (2min16 vs 2min28) with DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED.
      With full DEBUG_INFO it takes 2min46
      
      The actual improvement in user time taken by the compiler is much higher
      (all CPU combined user time 15min5s vs 16m30 before)
      but the usual amdahl bottleneck on the linker prevents more speedup.
      It still saves some more energy and keeps cycles for other things.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      e82c4bb8
    • James Hogan's avatar
      depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX · 8937e897
      James Hogan authored
      
      On architectures which have symbol prefixes, depmod emits lots of
      warnings like this:
      
      WARNING: $module.ko needs unknown symbol $symbol
      
      This is because depmod isn't being passed the -P <symbol_prefix>
      arguments to specify the symbol prefix to ignore. This option is
      included since the 3.13 release of module-init-tools.
      
      Update scripts/depmod.sh to take extra arguments for the symbol prefix
      (required but may be empty), and update the main Makefile to always pass
      "$(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX)" to scripts/depmod.sh.
      
      If the provided symbol prefix is non-empty, scripts/depmod.sh checks if
      depmod --version reports module-init-tools with a version number < 3.13
      otherwise it appends -P $SYMBOL_PREFIX to the depmod command line.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
      Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      8937e897
  8. Feb 18, 2013
  9. Feb 08, 2013
  10. Feb 01, 2013
  11. Jan 25, 2013
  12. Jan 24, 2013
  13. Jan 22, 2013
  14. Jan 18, 2013
  15. Jan 10, 2013
  16. Jan 03, 2013
  17. Dec 22, 2012
  18. Dec 20, 2012
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT · ffee0de4
      David Woodhouse authored
      
      It is easy to waste a bunch of time when one takes a 32-bit .config
      from a test machine and try to build it on a faster 64-bit system, and
      its existing setting of CONFIG_64BIT=n gets *changed* to match the
      build host.  Similarly, if one has an existing build tree it is easy
      to trash an entire build tree that way.
      
      This is because the default setting for $ARCH when discovered from
      'uname' is one of the legacy pre-x86-merge values (i386 or x86_64),
      which effectively force the setting of CONFIG_64BIT to match. We should
      default to ARCH=x86 instead, finally completing the merge that we
      started so long ago.
      
      This patch preserves the behaviour of the legacy ARCH settings for commands
      such as:
      
         make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
         make ARCH=i386 randconfig
      
      ... since making the value of CONFIG_64BIT actually random in that situation
      is not desirable.
      
      In time, perhaps we can retire this legacy use of the old ARCH= values.
      We already have a way to override values for *any* config option, using
      $KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG, so it could be argued that we don't necessarily need
      to keep ARCH={i386,x86_64} around as a special case just for overriding
      CONFIG_64BIT.
      
      We'd probably at least want to add a way to override config options from
      the command line ('make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig') before we talk about doing
      that though.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      ffee0de4
  19. Dec 14, 2012
    • Josh Boyer's avatar
      MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target · d890f510
      Josh Boyer authored
      
      If CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, and 'make modules_sign' is called then this
      patch will cause the modules to get a signature appended.  The make target
      is intended to be run after 'make modules_install', and will modify the
      modules in-place in the installed location.  It can be used to produce
      signed modules after they have been processed by distribution build
      scripts.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor typo fix)
      d890f510
  20. Dec 11, 2012
  21. Dec 09, 2012
  22. Dec 03, 2012
  23. Nov 26, 2012
  24. Nov 20, 2012
  25. Nov 19, 2012
    • David Howells's avatar
      tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile · bf35182f
      David Howells authored
      
      Honour the O= flag that was passed to a higher level Makefile and then passed
      down as part of a tool build.
      
      To make this work, the top-level Makefile passes the original O= flag and
      subdir=tools to the tools/Makefile, and that in turn passes
      subdir=$(O)/$(subdir)/foodir when building tool foo in directory
      $(O)/$(subdir)/foodir (where the intervening slashes aren't added if an
      element is missing).
      
      For example, take perf.  This is found in tools/perf/.  Assume we're building
      into directory ~/zebra/, so we pass O=~/zebra to make.  Dependening on where
      we run the build from, we see:
      
      	make run in dir		$(OUTPUT) dir
      	=======================	==================
      	linux			~/zebra/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools		~/zebra/perf/
      	linux/tools/perf	~/zebra/
      
      and if O= is not set, we get:
      
      	make run in dir		$(OUTPUT) dir
      	=======================	==================
      	linux			linux/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools		linux/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools/perf	linux/tools/perf/
      
      The output directories are created by the descend function if they don't
      already exist.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378.1352379110@warthog.procyon.org.uk
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      bf35182f
  26. Nov 17, 2012
  27. Nov 14, 2012
    • David Howells's avatar
      tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile · 9db48cd5
      David Howells authored
      
      Honour the O= flag that was passed to a higher level Makefile and then passed
      down as part of a tool build.
      
      To make this work, the top-level Makefile passes the original O= flag and
      subdir=tools to the tools/Makefile, and that in turn passes
      subdir=$(O)/$(subdir)/foodir when building tool foo in directory
      $(O)/$(subdir)/foodir (where the intervening slashes aren't added if an
      element is missing).
      
      For example, take perf.  This is found in tools/perf/.  Assume we're building
      into directory ~/zebra/, so we pass O=~/zebra to make.  Dependening on where
      we run the build from, we see:
      
      	make run in dir		$(OUTPUT) dir
      	=======================	==================
      	linux			~/zebra/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools		~/zebra/perf/
      	linux/tools/perf	~/zebra/
      
      and if O= is not set, we get:
      
      	make run in dir		$(OUTPUT) dir
      	=======================	==================
      	linux			linux/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools		linux/tools/perf/
      	linux/tools/perf	linux/tools/perf/
      
      The output directories are created by the descend function if they don't
      already exist.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378.1352379110@warthog.procyon.org.uk
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      9db48cd5
  28. Nov 11, 2012
  29. Nov 04, 2012
  30. Oct 28, 2012
  31. Oct 20, 2012
  32. Oct 19, 2012
  33. Oct 17, 2012
  34. Oct 14, 2012
  35. Oct 10, 2012
Loading