Sasha Levin reports:
"gcc5 changes the default standard to c11, which makes kernel build
unhappy
Explicitly define the kernel standard to be gnu89 which should keep
everything working exactly like it was before gcc5"
There are multiple small issues with the new default, but the biggest
issue seems to be that the old - and very useful - GNU extension to
allow a cast in front of an initializer has gone away.
Patch updated by Kirill:
"I'm pretty sure all gcc versions you can build kernel with supports
-std=gnu89. cc-option is redunrant.
We also need to adjust HOSTCFLAGS otherwise allmodconfig fails for me"
Note by Andrew Pinski:
"Yes it was reported and both problems relating to this extension has
been added to gnu99 and gnu11. Though there are other issues with the
kernel dealing with extern inline have different semantics between
gnu89 and gnu99/11"
End result: we may be able to move up to a newer stdc model eventually,
but right now the newer models have some annoying deficiencies, so the
traditional "gnu89" model ends up being the preferred one.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Singed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- fix for handling dependencies of *-objs targets by Masahiro Yamada
- lots of cleanups in the kbuild machinery, also by Masahiro
- fixes for the kconfig build to use an UTF-8 capable ncurses library
if possible and to build on not-so-standard installs
- some more minor fixes
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Do not reference *-n variables in the Makefile
kbuild: simplify build, clean, modbuiltin shorthands
kbuild: arm: Do not define "comma" twice
kbuild: remove obj-n and lib-n handling
kbuild: remove unnecessary variable initializaions
kbuild: remove unnecessary "obj- := dummy.o" trick
kbuild: handle C=... and M=... after entering into build directory
kbuild: use $(Q) for sub-make target
kbuild: fake the "Entering directory ..." message more simply
kconfig/lxdialog: get ncurses CFLAGS with pkg-config
kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling
kconfig: lxdialog: fix spelling
kbuild: Make scripts executable
kbuild: remove redundant clean-files from scripts/kconfig/Makefile
kbuild: refactor script/kconfig/Makefile
kbuild: handle the dependency of multi-objs hostprogs appropriately
kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency appropriately
Pull documentation updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Updates to kernel documentation.
I took this over (hopefully temporarily) from Randy who was not
willing to maintain it any longer. This pile mostly is a relay of
queue that Randy already had in his tree"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/doc:
Documentation: fix broken v4l-utils URL
Documentation: update include path for mpssd
Documentation: correct parameter error for dma_mapping_error
MAINTAINERS: update location of linux-doc tree
Documentation: remove networking/.gitignore
tools: add more endian.h macros
Make Documenation depend on headers_install
Docs: this_cpu_ops: remove redundant add forms
Documentation: disable vdso_test to avoid breakage with old glibc
Documentation: update vDSO makefile to build portable examples
Documentation: update .gitignore files
Documentation: support glibc versions without htole macros
v4l2-pci-skeleton: Only build if PCI is available
Documentation: fix misc. warnings
Documentation: make functions static to avoid prototype warnings
Documentation: add makefiles for more targets
Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"Nothing major: support for compressing modules, and auto-tainting
params.
PS. My virtio-next tree is empty: DaveM took the patches I had. There
might be a virtio-rng starvation fix, but so far it's a bit voodoo
so I will get to that in the next two days or it will wait"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
moduleparam: Resolve missing-field-initializer warning
kbuild: handle module compression while running 'make modules_install'.
modinst: wrap long lines in order to enhance cmd_modules_install
modsign: lookup lines ending in .ko in .mod files
modpost: simplify file name generation of *.mod.c files
modpost: reduce visibility of symbols and constify r/o arrays
param: check for tainting before calling set op.
drm/i915: taint the kernel if unsafe module parameters are set
module: add module_param_unsafe and module_param_named_unsafe
module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module params
module: rename KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG to avoid confusion
$(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/) was a useful strategy
to omit a long absolute path for in-source-tree build
prior to commit 890676c65d
(kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree).
Now $(srctree) is "." when building in the source tree.
It would not be annoying to add "$(srctree)/" all the time.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This commit avoids processing C=... and M=... twice
when O=... is also given.
Besides, we can also remove KBUILD_EXTMOD="$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)"
in the sub-make target.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Since commit 066b7ed955
(kbuild: Do not print the build directory with make -s),
"Q" is defined above the sub-make target.
This commit takes advantage of that and replaces
"$(if $(KBUILD_VERBOSE:1=),@)" with "$(Q)".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Commit c2e28dc975
(kbuild: Print the name of the build directory)
added a gimmick to show the "Entering directory ...".
Instead of echoing the hard-coded message (that is, we need to know
the exact message), moving --no-print-directory would be easier.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Since module-init-tools (gzip) and kmod (gzip and xz) support compressed
modules, it could be useful to include a support for compressing modules
right after having them installed. Doing this in kbuild instead of per
distro can permit to make this kind of usage more generic.
This patch add a Kconfig entry to "Enable loadable module support" menu
and let you choose to compress using gzip (default) or xz.
Both gzip and xz does not used any extra -[1-9] option since Andi Kleen
and Rusty Russell prove no gain is made using them. gzip is called with -n
argument to avoid storing original filename inside compressed file, that
way we can save some more bytes.
On a v3.16 kernel, 'make allmodconfig' generated 4680 modules for a
total of 378MB (no strip, no sign, no compress), the following table
shows observed disk space gain based on the allmodconfig .config :
| time |
+-------------+-----------------+
| manual .ko | make | size | percent
| compression | modules_install | | gain
+-------------+-----------------+------+--------
- | | 18.61s | 378M |
GZIP | 3m16s | 3m37s | 102M | 73.41%
XZ | 5m22s | 5m39s | 77M | 79.83%
The gain for restricted environnement seems to be interesting while
uncompress can be time consuming but happens only while loading a module,
that is generally done only once.
This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression
and provide to other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
Reviewed-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Jacquin <beber@meleeweb.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
