diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5e93342d22f9aa6c3ba9144ddd7926ff8f800f67..8fda3b3f7be87c01958c80823aea23cc22c790bf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1683,6 +1683,20 @@ sub process {
 			#print "is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
 		}
 
+		if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
+		    ($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) {
+			my $flag = $1;
+			my $replacement = {
+				'EXTRA_AFLAGS' =>   'asflags-y',
+				'EXTRA_CFLAGS' =>   'ccflags-y',
+				'EXTRA_CPPFLAGS' => 'cppflags-y',
+				'EXTRA_LDFLAGS' =>  'ldflags-y',
+			};
+
+			WARN("DEPRECATED_VARIABLE",
+			     "Use of $flag is deprecated, please use \`$replacement->{$flag} instead.\n" . $herecurr) if ($replacement->{$flag});
+		}
+
 # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk
 		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/);
 
diff --git a/scripts/extract-vmlinux b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5061abcc25409c4e095e8c5b25d3a8de3fb4db68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image
+#
+# Inspired from extract-ikconfig
+# (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>
+#
+# (c) 2011      Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
+#
+# Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+check_vmlinux()
+{
+	# Use readelf to check if it's a valid ELF
+	# TODO: find a better to way to check that it's really vmlinux
+	#       and not just an elf
+	readelf -h $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
+
+	cat $1
+	exit 0
+}
+
+try_decompress()
+{
+	# The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of
+	# "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern.
+
+	# Try to find the header ($1) and decompress from here
+	for	pos in `tr "$1\n$2" "\n$2=" < "$img" | grep -abo "^$2"`
+	do
+		pos=${pos%%:*}
+		tail -c+$pos "$img" | $3 > $tmp 2> /dev/null
+		check_vmlinux $tmp
+	done
+}
+
+# Check invocation:
+me=${0##*/}
+img=$1
+if	[ $# -ne 1 -o ! -s "$img" ]
+then
+	echo "Usage: $me <kernel-image>" >&2
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+# Prepare temp files:
+tmp=$(mktemp /tmp/vmlinux-XXX)
+trap "rm -f $tmp" 0
+
+# Initial attempt for uncompressed images or objects:
+check_vmlinux $img
+
+# That didn't work, so retry after decompression.
+try_decompress '\037\213\010' xy    gunzip
+try_decompress '\3757zXZ\000' abcde unxz
+try_decompress 'BZh'          xy    bunzip2
+try_decompress '\135\0\0\0'   xxx   unlzma
+try_decompress '\211\114\132' xy    'lzop -d'
+
+# Bail out:
+echo "$me: Cannot find vmlinux." >&2
diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 75c5d24f1993ae009aedf2b12bd33f7dd9360b25..38f6617a2cb16c614a2ed0a854eb97b7aa12cdbb 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ exuberant()
 	-I EXPORT_SYMBOL,EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL                      \
 	-I DEFINE_TRACE,EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL,EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL \
 	--extra=+f --c-kinds=+px                                \
-	--regex-asm='/^ENTRY\(([^)]*)\).*/\1/'                  \
+	--regex-asm='/^(ENTRY|_GLOBAL)\(([^)]*)\).*/\2/'        \
 	--regex-c='/^SYSCALL_DEFINE[[:digit:]]?\(([^,)]*).*/sys_\1/' \
 	--regex-c++='/^TRACE_EVENT\(([^,)]*).*/trace_\1/'		\
 	--regex-c++='/^DEFINE_EVENT\([^,)]*, *([^,)]*).*/trace_\1/'
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ exuberant()
 emacs()
 {
 	all_sources | xargs $1 -a                               \
-	--regex='/^ENTRY(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/'                      \
+	--regex='/^(ENTRY|_GLOBAL)(\([^)]*\)).*/\2/'            \
 	--regex='/^SYSCALL_DEFINE[0-9]?(\([^,)]*\).*/sys_\1/'   \
 	--regex='/^TRACE_EVENT(\([^,)]*\).*/trace_\1/'		\
 	--regex='/^DEFINE_EVENT([^,)]*, *\([^,)]*\).*/trace_\1/'