linux/tools
Breno Leitao fc9d904704 bootconfig: render embedded bootconfig as a kernel cmdline at build time
Add the build-time pipeline that renders the "kernel" subtree of
CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE into a flat cmdline string and stashes
it in .init.rodata as embedded_kernel_cmdline[]. A follow-up patch
adds the runtime helper that prepends this string to boot_command_line
during early architecture setup so parse_early_param() sees the values.

The build wires up:
  tools/bootconfig -C kernel - userspace tool already shared with
                               lib/bootconfig.c, used here in -C mode
                               to render a bootconfig file to a cmdline
  lib/embedded-cmdline.S     - .incbin's the rendered text plus a NUL
                               (listed under the EXTRA BOOT CONFIG
                               MAINTAINERS entry)
  lib/Makefile rule          - runs tools/bootconfig at build time
  Makefile prepare dep       - ensures tools/bootconfig is built first,
                               same pattern as tools/objtool and
                               tools/bpf/resolve_btfids

Drop the test target from tools/bootconfig/Makefile's default 'all'
recipe so that hooking the binary into the kernel build does not run
test-bootconfig.sh on every prepare. The tests stay available as
'make -C tools/bootconfig test', matching the convention of
tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids whose 'all' targets only
build the binary.

Require BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE to be non-empty before the new option
can be enabled, otherwise tools/bootconfig -C runs against an empty
file and prints a parse error on every kernel build.

The feature gates on CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG, a
silent symbol arches select once they've wired the prepend call into
setup_arch(). No arch selects it in this patch, so the user-visible
CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG is not yet enableable; when an arch
later opts in, the runtime behavior is added by the follow-up patches.

tools/bootconfig also installs on target systems, so its own Makefile
keeps $(CC) and stays cross-buildable as a standalone tool. The kernel
build, which runs the tool on the build host during prepare, instead
forces CC=$(HOSTCC) from a dedicated tools/bootconfig rule and clears
CROSS_COMPILE= in the sub-make. Without that clear, an LLVM=1 cross
build would inherit CROSS_COMPILE and tools/scripts/Makefile.include
would inject --target=/--sysroot= flags into the host clang invocation,
producing a target binary that fails to exec ("Exec format error").

embedded-cmdline.S places the rendered string in its own .init.rodata
subsection (.init.rodata.embed_cmdline) with the "a" (allocatable,
read-only) flag and %progbits. lib/bootconfig-data.S already places
the embedded bootconfig blob in .init.rodata with the "aw" flag
(xbc_init() rewrites separators in place, so that data must be
writable). Using a distinct subsection name avoids the ld.lld section-
type mismatch that would otherwise arise from mixing "a" and "aw"
under the same name; the linker's "*(.init.rodata .init.rodata.*)"
glob still folds both into the init image and frees them after boot.

A follow-up patch wires the build-time tools/bootconfig into the
top-level clean target.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260626-bootconfig_using_tools-v7-3-24ab72139c29@debian.org/

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@fritz.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-02 21:15:45 +09:00
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accounting tools/accounting/getdelays: fix -Wformat-truncation warning in format_timespec 2026-05-28 21:24:40 -07:00
arch perf tools changes for v7.2: 2026-06-23 11:34:49 -07:00
bootconfig bootconfig: render embedded bootconfig as a kernel cmdline at build time 2026-07-02 21:15:45 +09:00
bpf bpftool: Fix vmlinux BTF leak in cgroup commands 2026-06-21 18:02:10 -07:00
build perf tools changes for v7.2: 2026-06-23 11:34:49 -07:00
certs
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counter
crypto
debugging
dma tools/dma: Add dma_map_sg support 2026-03-04 11:22:05 +01:00
docs docs: kdoc_diff: add a helper tool to help checking kdoc regressions 2026-03-30 10:54:13 -06:00
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv tools: hv: Fix cross-compilation 2026-04-14 04:43:26 +00:00
iio iio: core: Add IIO_COVERAGE channel type 2026-05-31 11:01:50 +01:00
include Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.2' into loongarch-next 2026-06-22 11:29:06 +08:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with one document update 2026-06-25 09:09:38 -07:00
memory-model
mm slab changes for 7.2 - part 2 2026-06-22 08:28:48 -07:00
net tools/ynl: add missing uapi header deps in Makefile.deps 2026-06-24 19:30:55 -07:00
objtool objtool/klp: Cache dont_correlate() result 2026-05-04 21:16:07 -07:00
pcmcia
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power platform-drivers-x86 for v7.2-1 2026-06-23 08:31:33 -07:00
rcu
sched
sched_ext sched_ext: Move sources under kernel/sched/ext/ 2026-06-22 05:32:56 -10:00
scripts Kbuild/Kconfig updates for 7.1 2026-04-14 09:18:40 -07:00
sound
spi
testing LoongArch changes for v7.2 2026-06-26 08:42:49 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing rtla/tests: Fix pgrep filter in get_workload_pids.sh 2026-06-17 16:26:44 +02:00
unittests docs: kernel-doc: python: strip __counted_by_ptr macro 2026-05-15 08:11:36 -06:00
usb usbip: tools: add hint when no exported devices are found 2026-04-11 12:02:00 +02:00
verification verification/rvgen: Fix ltl2k writing True as a literal 2026-06-04 16:44:25 +02:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix build for kmalloc_obj API and missing stubs 2026-06-10 02:16:59 -04:00
wmi
workqueue tools/workqueue: add CACHE_SHARD support to wq_dump.py 2026-04-01 10:24:18 -10:00
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