History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7f6d8f7e 18-Oct-2023 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

kbuild: remove ARCH_POSTLINK from module builds

The '%.ko' rule in arch/*/Makefile.postlink does nothing but call the
'true' command.

Remove the unneeded code.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>


# 67d7c302 28-Jan-2023 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile

I added $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles in the following commits:

- 3204a7fb98a3 ("kbuild: prefix $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles")
- d82856395505 ("kbuild: do not require sub-make for separate output tree builds")

They were a preparation for removing --include-dir flag.

I have never thought --include-dir useful. Rather, it _is_ harmful.

For example, run the following commands:

$ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
$ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it
UPD include/config/kernel.release
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'

The first command configures the source tree for x86. The next command
tries to build ARM device trees in the separate foo/ directory - this
must stop because the directory foo/ has not been configured yet.

However, due to --include-dir=$(abs_srctree), the top Makefile includes
the wrong include/config/auto.conf from the source tree and continues
building. Kbuild traverses the directory tree, but of course it does
not work correctly. The Error message is also pointless - 'make prepare'
does not help at all for fixing the issue.

This commit fixes more arch Makefile, and finally removes --include-dir
from the top Makefile.

There are more breakages under drivers/, but I do not volunteer to fix
them all. I just moved --include-dir to drivers/Makefile.

With this commit, the second command will stop with a sensible message.

$ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
$ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
SYNC include/config/auto.conf.cmd
***
*** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=arm mrproper'
*** in /tmp/linux
***
make[2]: *** [../Makefile:646: outputmakefile] Error 1
/tmp/linux/Makefile:770: include/config/auto.conf.cmd: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [/tmp/linux/Makefile:793: include/config/auto.conf.cmd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
make: *** [Makefile:226: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>


# b71dca98 12-Aug-2020 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

powerpc: unrel_branch_check.sh: use nm to find symbol value

This is considerably faster then parsing the objdump asm output. It will
also make the enabling of llvm-objdump a little easier.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812081036.7969-2-sfr@canb.auug.org.au


# 43e76cd3 17-Jan-2020 Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>

powerpc: Do not consider weak unresolved symbol relocations as bad

Commit 8580ac9404f6 ("bpf: Process in-kernel BTF") introduced two weak
symbols that may be unresolved at link time which result in an absolute
relocation to 0. relocs_check.sh emits the following warning:

"WARNING: 2 bad relocations
c000000001a41478 R_PPC64_ADDR64 _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start
c000000001a41480 R_PPC64_ADDR64 _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end"

whereas those relocations are legitimate even for a relocatable kernel
compiled with -pie option.

relocs_check.sh already excluded some weak unresolved symbols explicitly:
remove those hardcoded symbols and add some logic that parses the symbols
using nm, retrieves all the weak unresolved symbols and excludes those from
the list of the potential bad relocations.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200118170335.21440-1-alex@ghiti.fr


# 858805b3 25-Aug-2019 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension

CONFIG_SHELL falls back to sh when bash is not installed on the system,
but nobody is testing such a case since bash is usually installed.
So, shell scripts invoked by CONFIG_SHELL are only tested with bash.

It makes it difficult to test whether the hashbang #!/bin/sh is real.
For example, #!/bin/sh in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh is
false. (I fixed it up)

Besides, some shell scripts invoked by CONFIG_SHELL use bash-extension
and #!/bin/bash is specified as the hashbang, while CONFIG_SHELL may
not always be set to bash.

Probably, the right thing to do is to introduce BASH, which is bash by
default, and always set CONFIG_SHELL to sh. Replace $(CONFIG_SHELL)
with $(BASH) for bash scripts.

If somebody tries to add bash-extension to a #!/bin/sh script, it will
be caught in testing because /bin/sh is a symlink to dash on some major
distributions.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# c494adef 11-May-2017 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64: Tool to check head sections location sanity

Use a tool to check that the location of "fixed sections" are where
we expected them to be, which catches cases the linker script can't
(stubs being added to start of .text section), and which ends up
being neater.

Sample output:

ERROR: start_text address is c000000000008100, should be c000000000008000
ERROR: see comments in arch/powerpc/tools/head_check.sh

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fold in fix from Nick for 4.6 era toolchains]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 4ea80652 11-May-2017 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64s: Tool to flag direct branches from unrelocated interrupt vectors

Direct banches from code below __end_interrupts to code above
__end_interrupts when built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE are disallowed
because they will break when the kernel is not located at 0.

Sample output:

WARNING: Unrelocated relative branches
c000000000000118 bl-> 0xc000000000038fb8 <pnv_restore_hyp_resource>
c00000000000013c b-> 0xc0000000001068a4 <kvm_start_guest>
c000000000000148 b-> 0xc00000000003919c <pnv_wakeup_loss>
c00000000000014c b-> 0xc00000000003923c <pnv_wakeup_noloss>
c0000000000005a4 b-> 0xc000000000106ffc <kvmppc_interrupt_hv>
c000000000001af0 b-> 0xc000000000106ffc <kvmppc_interrupt_hv>
c000000000001b24 b-> 0xc000000000106ffc <kvmppc_interrupt_hv>
c000000000001b58 b-> 0xc000000000106ffc <kvmppc_interrupt_hv>

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 24e0bfbf 08-May-2017 Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>

powerpc: Fix distclean with Makefile.postlink

Makefile.postlink always includes include/config/auto.conf, however
this file is not present in a clean kernel tree, causing make to fail:

$ git clone linuxppc.git
$ cd linuxppc.git
$ make distclean
arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink:10: include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'. Stop.
make: *** [vmlinuxclean] Error 2

Equally running 'make distclean; make distclean' will trip the error case.

Change the inclusion such that file not being found does not trigger an error.

Fixes: f188d0524d7e ("powerpc: Use the new post-link pass to check relocations")
Reported-by: Mircea Pop <mircea.pop@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# b71c9ffb 25-Nov-2016 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory

Move a couple of existing scripts under there. Remove scripts directory:
a script is a tool, a tool is not a script.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# f188d052 25-Nov-2016 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc: Use the new post-link pass to check relocations

Currently powerpc has to introduce a dependency on its default build
target zImage in order to run a relocation check pass over the linked
vmlinux. This is deficient because the check is not run if the plain
vmlinux target is built, or if one of the other boot targets is built.

Switch to using the kbuild post-link pass, added in commit fbe6e37dab97
("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile") in order to run this
check. In future powerpc will use this to do more complicated operations,
but initially using it for something simple is a good first step.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>