Kbuild changes
==============
* Drop '*_probe' pattern from modpost section check allowlist, which hid
legitimate warnings (Johan Hovold)
* Disable -Wtype-limits altogether, instead of enabling at W=2 (Vincent
Mailhol)
* Improve UAPI testing to skip testing headers that require a libc when
CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is not set, opening up testing of headers with no
libc dependencies to more environments (Thomas Weißschuh)
* Update gendwarfksyms documentation with required dependencies (Jihan
LIN)
* Reject invalid LLVM= values to avoid unintentionally falling back to
system toolchain (Thomas Weißschuh)
* Add a script to help run the kernel build process in a container for
consistent environments and testing (Guillaume Tucker)
* Simplify kallsyms by getting rid of the relative base (Ard Biesheuvel)
* Performance and usability improvements to scripts/make_fit.py (Simon
Glass)
* Minor various clean ups and fixes
Kconfig changes
===============
* Move XPM icons to individual files, clearing up GTK deprecation
warnings (Rostislav Krasny)
* Support
depends on FOO if BAR
as syntactic sugar for
depends on FOO || !BAR' (Nicolas Pitre, Graham Roff)
* Refactor merge_config.sh to use awk over shell/sed/grep, dramatically
speeding up processing large number of config fragments (Anders
Roxell, Mikko Rapeli)
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Merge tag 'kbuild-7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux
Pull Kbuild/Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
"Kbuild:
- Drop '*_probe' pattern from modpost section check allowlist, which
hid legitimate warnings (Johan Hovold)
- Disable -Wtype-limits altogether, instead of enabling at W=2
(Vincent Mailhol)
- Improve UAPI testing to skip testing headers that require a libc
when CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is not set, opening up testing of headers
with no libc dependencies to more environments (Thomas Weißschuh)
- Update gendwarfksyms documentation with required dependencies
(Jihan LIN)
- Reject invalid LLVM= values to avoid unintentionally falling back
to system toolchain (Thomas Weißschuh)
- Add a script to help run the kernel build process in a container
for consistent environments and testing (Guillaume Tucker)
- Simplify kallsyms by getting rid of the relative base (Ard
Biesheuvel)
- Performance and usability improvements to scripts/make_fit.py
(Simon Glass)
- Minor various clean ups and fixes
Kconfig:
- Move XPM icons to individual files, clearing up GTK deprecation
warnings (Rostislav Krasny)
- Support
depends on FOO if BAR
as syntactic sugar for
depends on FOO || !BAR
(Nicolas Pitre, Graham Roff)
- Refactor merge_config.sh to use awk over shell/sed/grep,
dramatically speeding up processing large number of config
fragments (Anders Roxell, Mikko Rapeli)"
* tag 'kbuild-7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (39 commits)
kbuild: remove dependency of run-command on config
scripts/make_fit: Compress dtbs in parallel
scripts/make_fit: Support a few more parallel compressors
kbuild: Support a FIT_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable
scripts/make_fit: Move dtb processing into a function
scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk
scripts/make_fit: Speed up operation
rust: kconfig: Don't require RUST_IS_AVAILABLE for rustc-option
MAINTAINERS: Add scripts/install.sh into Kbuild entry
modpost: Amend ppc64 save/restfpr symnames for -Os build
MIPS: tools: relocs: Ship a definition of R_MIPS_PC32
streamline_config.pl: remove superfluous exclamation mark
kbuild: dummy-tools: Add python3
scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: warn on duplicate input files
scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: use awk in checks too
scripts: kconfig: merge_config.sh: refactor from shell/sed/grep to awk
kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base
mips: Add support for PC32 relocations in vmlinux
Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
scripts: add tool to run containerized builds
...
Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
analysis features. (Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
admittedly.)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
(default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
function calls.
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
(Arnd Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
(Tamir Duberstein)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
...
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.
For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.
This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.
Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.
For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
Add a dev-tools/container.rst documentation page for the
scripts/container tool. This covers the basic usage with additional
information about environment variables and user IDs. It also
includes a number of practical examples with a reference to the
experimental kernel.org toolchain images.
Update MAINTAINERS accordingly with a reference to the added file.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
Reviewed-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/af886533cc5cbdd6ef1d909793b79a1ad42c74ca.1769090419.git.gtucker@gtucker.io
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Adds documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/context-analysis.rst, and
adds it to the index.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-5-elver@google.com
Currently, LKMM docs are not included in any of kernel documentation
books.
Commit e40573a43d ("docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt
into the core-api book") covered plain-text docs under Documentation/
by using the "include::" directive along with the ":literal:" option.
As LKMM docs are not under Documentation/, the same approach would not
work due to the directive's restriction.
As a matter of fact, kernel documentation has an extended directive
by the name of "kernel-include::", which loosens such restriction and
accepts any files under the kernel source tree.
Rather than moving LKMM docs around, use the latter and pull them into
the dev-tools book next to KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7ce84a93-5cbc-420e-894a-06a0372c52ab@gmail.com>
Move gdb and kgdb debugging documentation to the dedicated
debugging directory (Documentation/process/debugging/).
Adjust the index.rst files to follow the file movement.
Adjust files that refer to these moved files to follow the file movement.
Update location of kgdb.rst in MAINTAINERS file.
Add a link from dev-tools/index to process/debugging/index.
Note: translations are not updated.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-debuggers@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210000041.305477-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Add the build support for using Clang's Propeller optimizer. Like
AutoFDO, Propeller uses hardware sampling to gather information
about the frequency of execution of different code paths within a
binary. This information is then used to guide the compiler's
optimization decisions, resulting in a more efficient binary.
The support requires a Clang compiler LLVM 19 or later, and the
create_llvm_prof tool
(https://github.com/google/autofdo/releases/tag/v0.30.1). This
commit is limited to x86 platforms that support PMU features
like LBR on Intel machines and AMD Zen3 BRS.
Here is an example workflow for building an AutoFDO+Propeller
optimized kernel:
1) Build the kernel on the host machine, with AutoFDO and Propeller
build config
CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y
CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG=y
then
$ make LLVM=1 CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE=<autofdo_profile>
“<autofdo_profile>” is the profile collected when doing a non-Propeller
AutoFDO build. This step builds a kernel that has the same optimization
level as AutoFDO, plus a metadata section that records basic block
information. This kernel image runs as fast as an AutoFDO optimized
kernel.
2) Install the kernel on test/production machines.
3) Run the load tests. The '-c' option in perf specifies the sample
event period. We suggest using a suitable prime number,
like 500009, for this purpose.
For Intel platforms:
$ perf record -e BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN:k -a -N -b -c <count> \
-o <perf_file> -- <loadtest>
For AMD platforms:
The supported system are: Zen3 with BRS, or Zen4 with amd_lbr_v2
# To see if Zen3 support LBR:
$ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep " brs"
# To see if Zen4 support LBR:
$ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep amd_lbr_v2
# If the result is yes, then collect the profile using:
$ perf record --pfm-events RETIRED_TAKEN_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS:k -a \
-N -b -c <count> -o <perf_file> -- <loadtest>
4) (Optional) Download the raw perf file to the host machine.
5) Generate Propeller profile:
$ create_llvm_prof --binary=<vmlinux> --profile=<perf_file> \
--format=propeller --propeller_output_module_name \
--out=<propeller_profile_prefix>_cc_profile.txt \
--propeller_symorder=<propeller_profile_prefix>_ld_profile.txt
“create_llvm_prof” is the profile conversion tool, and a prebuilt
binary for linux can be found on
https://github.com/google/autofdo/releases/tag/v0.30.1 (can also build
from source).
"<propeller_profile_prefix>" can be something like
"/home/user/dir/any_string".
This command generates a pair of Propeller profiles:
"<propeller_profile_prefix>_cc_profile.txt" and
"<propeller_profile_prefix>_ld_profile.txt".
6) Rebuild the kernel using the AutoFDO and Propeller profile files.
CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y
CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG=y
and
$ make LLVM=1 CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE=<autofdo_profile> \
CLANG_PROPELLER_PROFILE_PREFIX=<propeller_profile_prefix>
Co-developed-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com>
Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny <kpszeniczny@google.com>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add the build support for using Clang's AutoFDO. Building the kernel
with AutoFDO does not reduce the optimization level from the
compiler. AutoFDO uses hardware sampling to gather information about
the frequency of execution of different code paths within a binary.
This information is then used to guide the compiler's optimization
decisions, resulting in a more efficient binary. Experiments
showed that the kernel can improve up to 10% in latency.
The support requires a Clang compiler after LLVM 17. This submission
is limited to x86 platforms that support PMU features like LBR on
Intel machines and AMD Zen3 BRS. Support for SPE on ARM 1,
and BRBE on ARM 1 is part of planned future work.
Here is an example workflow for AutoFDO kernel:
1) Build the kernel on the host machine with LLVM enabled, for example,
$ make menuconfig LLVM=1
Turn on AutoFDO build config:
CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y
With a configuration that has LLVM enabled, use the following
command:
scripts/config -e AUTOFDO_CLANG
After getting the config, build with
$ make LLVM=1
2) Install the kernel on the test machine.
3) Run the load tests. The '-c' option in perf specifies the sample
event period. We suggest using a suitable prime number,
like 500009, for this purpose.
For Intel platforms:
$ perf record -e BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN:k -a -N -b -c <count> \
-o <perf_file> -- <loadtest>
For AMD platforms:
The supported system are: Zen3 with BRS, or Zen4 with amd_lbr_v2
For Zen3:
$ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep " brs"
For Zen4:
$ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep amd_lbr_v2
$ perf record --pfm-events RETIRED_TAKEN_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS:k -a \
-N -b -c <count> -o <perf_file> -- <loadtest>
4) (Optional) Download the raw perf file to the host machine.
5) To generate an AutoFDO profile, two offline tools are available:
create_llvm_prof and llvm_profgen. The create_llvm_prof tool is part
of the AutoFDO project and can be found on GitHub
(https://github.com/google/autofdo), version v0.30.1 or later. The
llvm_profgen tool is included in the LLVM compiler itself. It's
important to note that the version of llvm_profgen doesn't need to
match the version of Clang. It needs to be the LLVM 19 release or
later, or from the LLVM trunk.
$ llvm-profgen --kernel --binary=<vmlinux> --perfdata=<perf_file> \
-o <profile_file>
or
$ create_llvm_prof --binary=<vmlinux> --profile=<perf_file> \
--format=extbinary --out=<profile_file>
Note that multiple AutoFDO profile files can be merged into one via:
$ llvm-profdata merge -o <profile_file> <profile_1> ... <profile_n>
6) Rebuild the kernel using the AutoFDO profile file with the same config
as step 1, (Note CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG needs to be enabled):
$ make LLVM=1 CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE=<profile_file>
Co-developed-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com>
Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny <kpszeniczny@google.com>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Jung <ptr1337@cachyos.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given translation was
last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and off-list
discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level, but I concluded
they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters that have
not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given
translation was last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
but I concluded they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
that have not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"
* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
...
This is a sloppy logic analyzer using GPIOs. It comes with a script to
isolate a CPU for polling. While this is definitely not a production
level analyzer, it can be a helpful first view when remote debugging.
Read the documentation for details.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620094159.6785-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
[Bartosz: moved the Kconfig entry into a different category]
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
'clang-format' is on 'Other material' section of 'process/index', but it
may fit more under 'dev-tools/' directory. Move it.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-5-sj@kernel.org
- Make Kconfig parse the input .config more precisely
- Support W=c and W=e options for Kconfig
- Set Kconfig int/hex symbols to zero if the 'default' property is
missing
- Add .editorconfig
- Add scripts/git.orderFile
- Add a script to detect backward-incompatible changes in UAPI headers
- Resolve the symlink passed to O= option properly
- Use the user-supplied mtime for all files in the builtin initramfs,
which provides better reproducible builds
- Fix the direct execution of debian/rules for Debian package builds
- Use build ID instead of the .gnu_debuglink section for the Debian dbg
package
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Make Kconfig parse the input .config more precisely
- Support W=c and W=e options for Kconfig
- Set Kconfig int/hex symbols to zero if the 'default' property is
missing
- Add .editorconfig
- Add scripts/git.orderFile
- Add a script to detect backward-incompatible changes in UAPI headers
- Resolve the symlink passed to O= option properly
- Use the user-supplied mtime for all files in the builtin initramfs,
which provides better reproducible builds
- Fix the direct execution of debian/rules for Debian package builds
- Use build ID instead of the .gnu_debuglink section for the Debian dbg
package
* tag 'kbuild-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (53 commits)
kbuild: deb-pkg: use debian/<package> for tmpdir
kbuild: deb-pkg: move 'make headers' to build-arch
kbuild: deb-pkg: do not search for 'scripts' directory under arch/
kbuild: deb-pkg: use build ID instead of debug link for dbg package
kbuild: deb-pkg: use more debhelper commands in builddeb
kbuild: deb-pkg: remove unneeded '-f $srctree/Makefile' in debian/rules
kbuild: deb-pkg: allow to run debian/rules from output directory
kbuild: deb-pkg: set DEB_* variables if debian/rules is directly executed
kbuild: deb-pkg: squash scripts/package/deb-build-option to debian/rules
kbuild: deb-pkg: factor out common Make options in debian/rules
kbuild: deb-pkg: hard-code Build-Depends
kbuild: deb-pkg: split debian/copyright from the mkdebian script
gen_init_cpio: Apply mtime supplied by user to all file types
kbuild: resolve symlinks for O= properly
docs: dev-tools: Add UAPI checker documentation
check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh
scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile
kconfig: WERROR unmet symbol dependency
Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting
kconfig: Use KCONFIG_CONFIG instead of .config
...
"class:: toc-title" was a workaround for older Sphinx versions that are
no longer supported.
The canonical way to add a heading to the ToC is to use :caption:.
Do that.
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: gaochao <gaochao49@huawei.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027081830.195056-6-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
It does not make any significant additions or changes other than those
already in use in the kernel: additional features can be added as they
become necessary and used.
[1]: https://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html
Signed-off-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Co-developed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207190251.18426-1-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've
seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are.
Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each,
and how they interact.
This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel
testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times
questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?"
are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully
this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later.
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054036.581117-1-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for kernel script checkpatch.pl.
This documentation is also parsed by checkpatch to
enable a verbose mode.
The checkpatch message types are grouped by usage. Under
each group the types are described briefly. 34 of such
types are documented.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226093827.12700-2-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework.
- Add intro and usage guide for KUnit
- Add API reference
Signed-off-by: Felix Guo <felixguoxiuping@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes a spelling error and removes an extra whitespace character.
Signed-off-by: Shreyans Devendra Doshi <0xinfosect0r@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This update consists of:
-- TAP13 framework and changes to some tests to convert to TAP13.
Converting kselftest output to standard format will help identify
run to run differences and pin point failures easily. TAP13 format
has been in use for several years and the output is human friendly.
Please find the specification:
https://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html
Credit goes to Tim Bird for recommending TAP13 as a suitable format,
and to Grag KH for kick starting the work with help from Paul Elder
and Alice Ferrazzi
The first phase of the TAp13 conversion is included in this update.
Future updates will include updates to rest of the tests.
-- Masami Hiramatsu fixed ftrace to run on 4.9 stable kernels.
-- Kselftest documnetation has been converted to ReST format. Document
now has a new home under Documentation/dev-tools.
-- kselftest_harness.h is now available for general use as a result of
Mickaël Salaün's work.
-- Several fixes to skip and/or fail tests gracefully on older releases.
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Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull Kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
"This update consists of:
- TAP13 framework and changes to some tests to convert to TAP13.
Converting kselftest output to standard format will help identify
run to run differences and pin point failures easily. TAP13 format
has been in use for several years and the output is human friendly.
Please find the specification:
https://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html
Credit goes to Tim Bird for recommending TAP13 as a suitable
format, and to Grag KH for kick starting the work with help from
Paul Elder and Alice Ferrazzi
The first phase of the TAp13 conversion is included in this update.
Future updates will include updates to rest of the tests.
- Masami Hiramatsu fixed ftrace to run on 4.9 stable kernels.
- Kselftest documnetation has been converted to ReST format. Document
now has a new home under Documentation/dev-tools.
- kselftest_harness.h is now available for general use as a result of
Mickaël Salaün's work.
- Several fixes to skip and/or fail tests gracefully on older
releases"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (48 commits)
selftests: membarrier: use ksft_* var arg msg api
selftests: breakpoints: breakpoint_test_arm64: convert test to use TAP13
selftests: breakpoints: step_after_suspend_test use ksft_* var arg msg api
selftests: breakpoint_test: use ksft_* var arg msg api
kselftest: add ksft_print_msg() function to output general information
kselftest: make ksft_* output functions variadic
selftests/capabilities: Fix the test_execve test
selftests: intel_pstate: add .gitignore
selftests: fix memory-hotplug test
selftests: add missing test name in memory-hotplug test
selftests: check percentage range for memory-hotplug test
selftests: check hot-pluggagble memory for memory-hotplug test
selftests: typo correction for memory-hotplug test
selftests: ftrace: Use md5sum to take less time of checking logs
tools/testing/selftests/sysctl: Add pre-check to the value of writes_strict
kselftest.rst: do some adjustments after ReST conversion
selftest/net/Makefile: Specify output with $(OUTPUT)
selftest/intel_pstate/aperf: Use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS
selftest/memfd/Makefile: Fix build error
selftests: lib: Skip tests on missing test modules
...
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Add minimal conf.py and moved dev-tools/tools.rst to dev-tools/index.rst
makes the dev-tools folder buildable stand-alone. To build only this
folder run::
make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools htmldocs
make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools pdfdocs
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
