PowerPC will start moving board defconfigs into subarch-specific
subdirs soon. "make help" currently does not look in subdirs to
find the defconfigs to show. This is partially a good thing,
since there are way too many defconfigs for one list.
This patch makes the main "make help" display something like
help-40x - Show 40x-specific targets
help-44x - Show 44x-specific targets
help-boards - Show all of the above
and wires up stuff so those new help-* commands actually work.
[sam: fixed it up to display x86 defconfigs too]
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4
gcc mainline (upcoming 4.4) added a new -Wframe-larger-than=...
option to warn at build time about too large stack frames. Add a config
option to enable this warning, since this very useful for the kernel.
I choose (somewhat arbitarily) 2048 as default warning threshold for 64bit
and 1024 as default for 32bit architectures. With some research and
fixing all the code for smaller values these defaults should be probably
lowered.
With the default allyesconfigs have some new warnings, but I think
that is all code that should be just fixed.
At some point (when gcc 4.4 is released and widely used) this should
obsolete make checkstack
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Currently there is only code to parse NUMA attributes on
sun4v/niagara systems, but later on we will add such parsing
for older systems.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The module alias support in the kernel have a consistency
check where it is checked that the size of a structure
in the kernel and on the build host are the same.
For cross builds this check does not make sense so detect
when we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these
situations.
This fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building
for arm.
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
kbuild: explain why DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is UNDEFINED
kbuild: fix building vmlinux.o
kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect
kconfig: fix select in combination with default
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i've got a build log from a weird build error below:
>
> LD init/built-in.o
> distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
>
Building vmlinux.o were moved up in the dependency chain so we started
to build it before the kallsym stuff. This was done to let modpost
report section mismatch bugs even when the final link failed.
Originally I had expected the dependency of $(kallsyms.o) to
cover this but it turns out that we need to be even more explicit.
Fix this by adding a conditional dependency on firat target
used in the kallsyms serie of builds.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
===
I just read the excellent LWN writeup of the vmsplice
security thing, and that got me wondering why this attack
wasn't stopped by the CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR option...
because it plain should have been...
Some analysis later.. it turns out that the following line
in the top level Makefile, added by you in October 2007,
entirely disables CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR ;(
With this line removed the exploit will be nicely stopped.
CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
Now I realize that certain distros have patched gcc to
compensate for their lack of distro wide CFLAGS, and it's
great to work around that... but would there be a way to NOT
disable this for CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR please?
It would have made this exploit not possible for those kernels
that enable this feature (and that includes distros like Fedora)
===
Move the assignment to KBUILD_CFLAGS up before including
the arch specific Makefile so arch makefiles may override
the setting.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
.. and I really need to call it something else. Maybe it is time to
bring back the weasel series, since weasels always make me feel good
about a kernel.
