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  1. Jun 06, 2020
  2. Jun 03, 2020
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      modpost: pass -N option only for modules modpost · 4e5ab74c
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      The built-in only code is not required to have MODULE_IMPORT_NS() to
      use symbols. So, the namespace is not checked for vmlinux(.o).
      
      Do not pass the meaningless -N option to the first pass of modpost.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      4e5ab74c
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      modpost: move -T option close to the modpost command · 89d61176
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      The '-T -' option reads the file list from stdin.
      
      It is clearer to put it close to the piped command.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      89d61176
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      modpost: fix -i (--ignore-errors) MAKEFLAGS detection · 91e6ee58
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      $(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS)) works only in limited use-cases.
      
      The representation of $(MAKEFLAGS) depends on various factors:
        - GNU Make version (version 3.8x or version 4.x)
        - The presence of other flags like -j
      
      In my experiments, $(MAKEFLAGS) is expanded as follows:
      
        * GNU Make 3.8x:
      
          * without -j option:
            --no-print-directory -Rri
      
          * with -j option:
            --no-print-directory -Rr --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j -i
      
        * GNU Make 4.x:
      
          * without -j option:
            irR --no-print-directory
      
          * with -j option:
            irR -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory
      
      For GNU Make 4.x, the flags are grouped as 'irR', which does not work.
      
      For the single thread build with GNU Make 3.8x, the flags are grouped
      as '-Rri', which does not work either.
      
      To make it work for all cases, do likewise as commit 6f0fa58e
      ("kbuild: simplify silent build (-s) detection").
      
      BTW, since commit ff9b45c5 ("kbuild: modpost: read modules.order
      instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod"), you also need to pass -k option to
      build final *.ko files. 'make -i -k' ignores compile errors in modules,
      and build as many remaining *.ko as possible.
      
      Please note this feature is kind of dangerous if other modules depend
      on the broken module because the generated modules will lack the correct
      module dependency or CRC. Honestly, I am not a big fan of it, but I am
      keeping this feature.
      
      Fixes: eed380f3 ("modpost: Optionally ignore secondary errors seen if a single module build fails")
      Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      91e6ee58
  3. May 28, 2020
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: disallow multi-word in M= or KBUILD_EXTMOD · e9e81b63
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      $(firstword ...) in scripts/Makefile.modpost was added by commit
      3f3fd3c0 ("[PATCH] kbuild: allow multi-word $M in Makefile.modpost")
      to build multiple external module directories.
      
      It was a solution to resolve symbol dependencies when an external
      module depends on another external module.
      
      Commit 0d96fb20 ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable
      KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced another solution by passing symbol
      info via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, then broke the multi-word M= support.
      
        include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
                     $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
      
      ... does not work if KBUILD_EXTMOD contains multiple words.
      
      This feature has been broken for more than a decade. Remove the
      bitrotten code, and stop parsing if M or KBUILD_EXTMOD contains
      multiple words.
      
      As Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst explains, if your module depends
      on another one, there are two solutions:
        - add a common top-level Kbuild file
        - use KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      e9e81b63
  4. Mar 13, 2020
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  10. Aug 09, 2019
  11. Jul 31, 2019
  12. Jul 17, 2019
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR · b7dca6dd
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
      but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.
      
      To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
      for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
      necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
      directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.
      
      Later, commit 551559e1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
      modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
      with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
      *.mod files.
      
      $(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
      are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
      the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
      fragile.
      
      Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
      conflict:
      
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
      
      
      
      In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
      $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.
      
      Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
      commit 3a48a919 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
      introduced a new checker script.
      
      However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
      this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
      happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.
      
      To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
      so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.
      
      $(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.
      
      Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
      is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.
      
      I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
      for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
      it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
      descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
      'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
      renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
      vice versa.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
      b7dca6dd
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod · ff9b45c5
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      Towards the goal of removing MODVERDIR, read out modules.order to get
      the list of modules to be processed. This is simpler than parsing *.mod
      files in $(MODVERDIR).
      
      For external modules, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.order should be read.
      
      I removed the single target %.ko from the top Makefile. To make sure
      modpost works correctly, vmlinux and the other modules must be built.
      You cannot build a particular .ko file alone.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      ff9b45c5
  13. Apr 11, 2019
    • Wiebe, Wladislav (Nokia - DE/Ulm)'s avatar
      modpost: make KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN also configurable for external modules · 83da1bed
      Wiebe, Wladislav (Nokia - DE/Ulm) authored
      
      Commit ea837f1c ("kbuild: make modpost processing configurable")
      was intended to give KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN flexibility to be configurable.
      Right now KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN gets just ignored when KBUILD_EXTMOD is
      set which happens per default when building modules out of the tree.
      
      This change gives the opportunity to define module build behaving also
      in case of out of tree builds and default will become exit on error.
      Errors which can be detected by the build should be trapped out of the box
      there, unless somebody wants to notice broken stuff later at runtime.
      
      As this patch changes the default behaving from warning to error,
      users can consider to fix it for external module builds by:
      - providing module symbol table via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS for
        modules which are dependent
      - OR getting old behaving back by passing KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN to the build
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWladislav Wiebe <wladislav.wiebe@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      83da1bed
  14. Mar 13, 2019
  15. Jan 28, 2019
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: add real-prereqs shorthand for $(filter-out FORCE,$^) · afa974b7
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      In Kbuild, if_changed and friends must have FORCE as a prerequisite.
      
      Hence, $(filter-out FORCE,$^) or $(filter-out $(PHONY),$^) is a common
      idiom to get the names of all the prerequisites except phony targets.
      
      Add real-prereqs as a shorthand.
      
      Note:
      We cannot replace $(filter %.o,$^) in cmd_link_multi-m because $^ may
      include auto-generated dependencies from the .*.cmd file when a single
      object module is changed into a multi object module. Refer to commit
      69ea912f ("kbuild: remove unneeded link_multi_deps"). I added some
      comment to avoid accidental breakage.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
      afa974b7
  16. Aug 23, 2018
  17. Jul 06, 2018
  18. Nov 16, 2017
  19. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  20. Oct 07, 2017
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  23. Sep 23, 2013
    • Guenter Roeck's avatar
      modpost: Optionally ignore secondary errors seen if a single module build fails · eed380f3
      Guenter Roeck authored
      
      Commit ea4054a2 (modpost: handle huge numbers of modules) added
      support for building a large number of modules.
      
      Unfortunately, the commit changed the semantics of the makefile: Instead of
      passing only existing object files to modpost, make now passes all expected
      object files. If make was started with option -i, this results in a modpost
      error if a single file failed to build.
      
      Example with the current btrfs build falure on m68k:
      
      fs/btrfs/btrfs.o: No such file or directory
      make[1]: [__modpost] Error 1 (ignored)
      
      This error is followed by lots of errors such as:
      
      m68k-linux-gcc: error: arch/m68k/emu/nfcon.mod.c: No such file or directory
      m68k-linux-gcc: fatal error: no input files
      compilation terminated.
      make[1]: [arch/m68k/emu/nfcon.mod.o] Error 1 (ignored)
      
      This doesn't matter much for normal builds, but it is annoying for builds
      started with "make -i" due to the large number of secondary errors.
      Those errors unnececessarily clog any error log and make it difficult
      to find the real errors in the build.
      
      Fix the problem by adding a new parameter '-n' to modpost. If this parameter
      is specified, modpost reports but ignores missing object files.
      
      With this patch, error output from above problem is (with make -i):
      
      m68k-linux-ld: cannot find fs/btrfs/ioctl.o: No such file or directory
      make[2]: [fs/btrfs/btrfs.o] Error 1 (ignored)
      ...
      fs/btrfs/btrfs.o: No such file or directory (ignored)
      
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Michael Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      eed380f3
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