Crosscompiling on a Fedora 9 machine running gcc 4.3.0 as its host compiler
and gcc 3.4.6 for the mips-linux target results in the following build
error:

$ make malta_defconfig
$ make
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector"
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/mips/Kconfig
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector"

The arch Makefile is included too late so the host compiler is feature
tested, not the crosscompiler as intended and thus the Makefile applies
adds -fno-stack-protector to crosscompiler's flags which fails for gcc
3.4.6.  The bug was introduced by e06b8b98
in 2.6.25; 35bb5b1e did add more flags
testing before the arch Makefile inclusion.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Plugs into the generic powerpc clock driver in
arch/powerpc/kernel/clock.c

The following subset of clk_interface is implemented:
    clk_get, clk_put:  get clock via name, release clock
    clk_enable, clk_disable:  enable or disable clock
    clk_get_rate:  get clock rate in Hz
    clk_set_rate:  stubbed
    clk_round_rate:  stubbed
    clk_set_parent: NULL
    clk_get_parent: NULL
Signed-off-by: NJohn Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

For 'make modules_install', install any firmware required by
the modules which are being installed.

Also add a 'make firmware_install' target which doesn't depend on the
configuration, but installs _all_ available in-kernel-tree firmware into
$(INSTALL_FW_PATH), which defaults to /lib/firmware. This is intended
for distributors to make arch-independent (and config-independent)
packages containing firmware.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

This allows arbitrary firmware files to be included in the static kernel
where the firmware loader can find them without requiring userspace to
be alive.

(Updated and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR added with lots of help from
Johannes Berg).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

.. and a new name, courtesy of Alan.

If CONFIG_FTRACE is selected and /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is
set to a non-zero value the ftrace routine will be called everytime
we enter a kernel function that is not marked with the "notrace"
attribute.

The ftrace routine will then call a registered function if a function
happens to be registered.

[ This code has been highly hacked by Steven Rostedt and Ingo Molnar,
  so don't blame Arnaldo for all of this ;-) ]

Update:
  It is now possible to register more than one ftrace function.
  If only one ftrace function is registered, that will be the
  function that ftrace calls directly. If more than one function
  is registered, then ftrace will call a function that will loop
  through the functions to call.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Since 97965478 ("mm: Get rid of __ZONE_COUNT")
mmzone.h includes bounds.h.
Calling make clean after make prepare removes bounds.h
again so when building external modules this fails.
Signed-off-by: NJan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
--

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> introduced a code adds
menuconfig SOMETHING in Kconfig to tags output when you did "make tags".

See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=80ff26241623875636674a31c0540a78c0fb5433

"make tags" may work fine with his code. However make TAGS doesn't work well
because etags command requires backslashes to escape meta characters like
`(', `)' and `|'.

Here is a patch.
Signed-off-by: NMasatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

We always linked vmliux.o.
Remove init/built-in.o dependency so we avoid this
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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: NSegher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NSam 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: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Steps to reproduce:

	vi -t NETFILTER
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

This snuck in through 919ee677
("[SPARC64]: Add NUMA support")
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It should be "if" but is written as "is"..
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-Koenig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

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: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: NGordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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: NSam 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: NSam 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.

Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>