The header tests try to compile each header. Some UAPI headers depend on
libc headers so they need a full userspace toolchain to build. This
dependency is expressed in kconfig as a dependency on CC_CAN_LINK.
Many kernel builds do not satisfy CC_CAN_LINK as they only use a
minimal kernel (cross-) compiler. In those configurations the UAPI
headers are not tested at all.
However most UAPI headers do not even depend on any libc headers,
and such dependencies are undesired in any case. Also the static
analysis performed by headers_check.pl does not need CC_CAN_LINK.
Drop the hard dependency on CC_CAN_LINK and instead skip the affected
compilation step for exactly those headers which require libc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223-uapi-nostdinc-v1-5-d91545d794f7@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Since openrisc does not support PERF_EVENTS, omit the HDRTEST of
bpf_perf_event.h for arch/openrisc/.
Fixes a build error:
usr/include/linux/bpf_perf_event.h:14:28: error: field 'regs' has incomplete type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The headercheck tries to call clang with a mix of compiler arguments
that don't include the target architecture. When building e.g. x86
headers on arm64, this produces a warning like
clang: warning: unknown platform, assuming -mfloat-abi=soft
Add in the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS, which contain the target, in order to make it
build properly.
See also 1b71c2fb04 ("kbuild: userprogs: fix bitsize and target
detection on clang").
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Fixes: feb843a469 ("kbuild: add $(CLANG_FLAGS) to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
"include/asm-<arch>" was replaced by "arch/<arch>/include/asm" a long
time ago. All assembler header files are now included using
"#include <asm/*>", so there is no longer a need to rewrite paths.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Kbuild conventionally uses $(obj)/ for generated files, and $(src)/ for
checked-in source files. It is merely a convention without any functional
difference. In fact, $(obj) and $(src) are exactly the same, as defined
in scripts/Makefile.build:
src := $(obj)
When the kernel is built in a separate output directory, $(src) does
not accurately reflect the source directory location. While Kbuild
resolves this discrepancy by specifying VPATH=$(srctree) to search for
source files, it does not cover all cases. For example, when adding a
header search path for local headers, -I$(srctree)/$(src) is typically
passed to the compiler.
This introduces inconsistency between upstream and downstream Makefiles
because $(src) is used instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for the latter.
To address this inconsistency, this commit changes the semantics of
$(src) so that it always points to the directory in the source tree.
Going forward, the variables used in Makefiles will have the following
meanings:
$(obj) - directory in the object tree
$(src) - directory in the source tree (changed by this commit)
$(objtree) - the top of the kernel object tree
$(srctree) - the top of the kernel source tree
Consequently, $(srctree)/$(src) in upstream Makefiles need to be replaced
with $(src).
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.
None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.
While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.
There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.
So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Add HOSTPKG_CONFIG env variable to allow users to override pkg-config
- Support W=e as a shorthand for KCFLAGS=-Werror
- Fix CONFIG_IKHEADERS build to support toybox cpio
- Add scripts/dummy-tools/pahole to ease distro packagers' life
- Suppress false-positive warnings from checksyscalls.sh for W=2 build
- Factor out the common code of arch/*/boot/install.sh into
scripts/install.sh
- Support 'kernel-install' tool in scripts/prune-kernel
- Refactor module-versioning to link the symbol versions at the final
link of vmlinux and modules
- Remove CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS because module-versioning now works in
an arch-agnostic way
- Refactor modpost, Makefiles
* tag 'kbuild-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (56 commits)
genksyms: adjust the output format to modpost
kbuild: stop merging *.symversions
kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS
modpost: extract symbol versions from *.cmd files
modpost: add sym_find_with_module() helper
modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type
modpost: remove left-over cross_compile declaration
kbuild: record symbol versions in *.cmd files
kbuild: generate a list of objects in vmlinux
modpost: move *.mod.c generation to write_mod_c_files()
modpost: merge add_{intree_flag,retpoline,staging_flag} to add_header
scripts/prune-kernel: Use kernel-install if available
kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh
modpost: split new_symbol() to symbol allocation and hash table addition
modpost: make sym_add_exported() always allocate a new symbol
modpost: make multiple export error
modpost: dump Module.symvers in the same order of modules.order
modpost: traverse the namespace_list in order
modpost: use doubly linked list for dump_lists
modpost: traverse unresolved symbols in order
...
asm/stat.h is currently excluded from the UAPI compile-test for
ARCH=sparc because of the errors like follows:
In file included from <command-line>:
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:11:2: error: unknown type name 'ino_t'
11 | ino_t st_ino;
| ^~~~~
HDRTEST usr/include/asm/param.h
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:12:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t'
12 | mode_t st_mode;
| ^~~~~~
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:14:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t'
14 | uid_t st_uid;
| ^~~~~
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:15:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t'
15 | gid_t st_gid;
| ^~~~~
The errors can be fixed by prefixing the types with __kernel_.
Then, remove the no-header-test entry from user/include/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
asm/stat.h is currently excluded from the UAPI compile-test for
ARCH=powerpc because of the errors like follows:
HDRTEST usr/include/asm/stat.h
In file included from <command-line>:32:
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:32:2: error: unknown type name 'ino_t'
32 | ino_t st_ino;
| ^~~~~
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:35:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t'
35 | mode_t st_mode;
| ^~~~~~
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:40:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t'
40 | uid_t st_uid;
| ^~~~~
./usr/include/asm/stat.h:41:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t'
41 | gid_t st_gid;
| ^~~~~
The errors can be fixed by prefixing the types with __kernel_.
Then, remove the no-header-test entry from user/include/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
