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Andy Whitcroft
57b9c6d9c5 checkpatch: version: 0.26
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
21caa13c02 checkpatch: fix the perlcritic errors
Clean up checkpatch using perlcritic.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
2b6db5cb65 checkpatch: struct file_operations should normally be const
In the general use case struct file_operations should be a const object.
Check for and warn where it is not.  As suggested by Steven and Ingo.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
b53c8e104e checkpatch: ensure we actually detect if assignments split across lines
When checking for assignments within if conditionals we check the whole of
the condition, but the match is performed using a line constrained regular
expression.  This means we can miss split conditionals or those on the
second line.  Allow the check to span lines.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
2d1bafd799 checkpatch: do not report nr_static as a static declaration
Ensure we do not report identifiers containing the word static as static
declarations.  For example this should not be reported as an unecessary
assignement of 0:

	long nr_static = 0;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
4635f4fbaf checkpatch: track #ifdef/#else/#endif when tracking blocks
When picking up a complete statement or block for analysis we cannot
simply track open/close/etc parenthesis we must take into account
preprocessor section boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
8b1b33786b checkpatch: fix continuation detection when handling spacing on operators
We are miscategorising a continuation fragment following an operator
which may lead to us thinking that there is a space after it when there is
not.  Fix this up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
8054576dca checkpatch: loosen spacing on typedef function checks
Loosen spacing checks to correctly detect this valid use of a typedef:

	typedef struct rcu_data *(*get_data_func)(int);

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:17 -08:00
Mike Frysinger
080ba92965 checkpatch: try to catch missing VMLINUX_SYMBOL() in vmlinux.lds.h
Seems like every other release we have someone who updates vmlinux.lds.h
and adds C-visible symbols without VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around them.  So start
checking the file and reject assignments which have plain symbols on
either side.

[apw@canonical.com: soften the check, add tests]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
86f9d059c6 checkpatch: allow parentheses on return for comparisons
It seems to be a common idiom to include braces on conditionals in all
contexts including return.  Allow this exception to the return is not a
function checks.  Reported by Kay Sievers.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Wolfram Sang
1e85572697 checkpatch: Add warning for p0-patches
Some people work internally with -p0-patches which has the danger that one
forgets to convert them to -p1 before mainlining.  Bitten myself and seen
p0-patches in mailing lists occasionally, this patch adds a warning to
checkpatch.pl in case a patch is -p0.  If you really want, you can fool
this check to generate false positives, this is why it just spits a
warning.  Making the check 100% proof is trickier than it looks, so let's
start with a version which catches the cases of real use.

[apw@canonical.com: update message language, handle null prefix, add tests]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
2a5a2c2522 checkpatch: update copyrights
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
50a7dcfb50 checkpatch: version: 0.25
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
65863862ba checkpatch: dissallow spaces between stars in pointer types
Disallow spaces within multiple pointer stars (*) in both casts and
definitions.  Both of these would now be reported:

	(char * *)
	char * *foo;

Also now consistently detects and reports the attributes within these
structures making the error report itself clearer.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
fae17daed7 checkpatch: comment ends inside strings is most likely not an open comment
When we are detecting whether a comment is open when we start a hunk we
check for the first comment edge in the hunk and assume its inverse.
However if the hunk contains something like below, then we will assume
that a comment was open.  Update this heuristic to see if the comment edge
is obviously within double quotes and ignore it if so:

	foo(" */);

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
8e761b04a3 checkpatch: detect multiple bitfield declarations
Detect the colons (:) which make up secondary bitfield declarations and
apply binary colon checks.  For example the following is common idiom:

	int foo:1,
	    bar:1;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
5fe3af119b checkpatch: __weak is an official attribute
Add __weak as an official attribute.  This tends to be used in a location
where the automated attribute detector misses it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
383099fd63 checkpatch: structure member assignments are not complex
Ensure we do not trigger the complex macros checks on structure member
assignment, for example:

	#define foo .bar = 10

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
83242e0c23 checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars
Some people use double star '**' as a comment continuation, and start
comments with complete lines of stars.  Widen the implied comment
detection to pick these up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
721c1cb60e checkpatch: comment detection may miss an implied comment on the last hunk
When detecting implied comments from leading stars we may incorrectly
think we have detected an edge one way or the other when we have not if we
drop off the end of the last hunk.  Fix this up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
691d77b6b8 checkpatch: add checks for in_atomic()
in_atomic() is not for driver use so report any such use as an ERROR.
Also in_atomic() is often used to determine if we may sleep, but it is not
reliable in this use model therefore strongly discourage its use.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:15 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
5aea50b5c7 scripts: script from kerneloops.org to pretty print oops dumps
We're struggling all the time to figure out where the code came from that
oopsed..  The script below (a adaption from a script used by
kerneloops.org) can help developers quite a bit, at least for non-module
cases.

It works and looks like this:

[/home/arjan/linux]$ dmesg | perl scripts/markup_oops.pl vmlinux
 {
 	struct agp_memory *memory;

 	memory = agp_allocate_memory(agp_bridge, pg_count, type);
 c055c10f:	89 c2                	mov    %eax,%edx
 	if (memory == NULL)
 c055c111:	74 19                	je     c055c12c <agp_allocate_memory_wrap+0x30>
 /* This function must only be called when current_controller != NULL */
 static void agp_insert_into_pool(struct agp_memory * temp)
 {
 	struct agp_memory *prev;

 	prev = agp_fe.current_controller->pool;
 c055c113:	a1 ec dc 8f c0       	mov    0xc08fdcec,%eax
*c055c118:	8b 40 10             	mov    0x10(%eax),%eax     <----- faulting instruction

 	if (prev != NULL) {
 c055c11b:	85 c0                	test   %eax,%eax
 c055c11d:	74 05                	je     c055c124 <agp_allocate_memory_wrap+0x28>
 		prev->prev = temp;
 c055c11f:	89 50 04             	mov    %edx,0x4(%eax)
 		temp->next = prev;
 c055c122:	89 02                	mov    %eax,(%edx)
 	}
 	agp_fe.current_controller->pool = temp;
 c055c124:	a1 ec dc 8f c0       	mov    0xc08fdcec,%eax
 c055c129:	89 50 10             	mov    %edx,0x10(%eax)
 	if (memory == NULL)
 		return NULL;

 	agp_insert_into_pool(memory);

so in this case, we faulted while dereferencing agp_fe.current_controller
pointer, and we get to see exactly which function and line it affects...
Personally I find this very useful, and I can see value for having this
script in the kernel for more-than-just-me to use.

Caveats:
* It only works for oopses not-in-modules
* It only works nicely for kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
* It's not very fast.
* It only works on x86

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:12 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
b67ff8ce12 kbuild: ignore a few files in headers_check
The new check for asm/types.h and linux/types.h had
a few false positives.

o We cannot let linux/types.h include linux/types.h
o The int-ll64.h and int-ll64.h define the types
  and are included by linux/types.h

Handle this by hardcoding the filenames in the headers_check script.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:27 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
483b41218f kbuild: add checks for include of linux/types in userspace headers
If we see __[us](8|16|32|64) then we must include <linux/types.h>
If wee see include of <asm/types.h> then we recommend <linux/types.h>

Original script from Mike but modified by me.

Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:26 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
521b0c774d kbuild: drop debugging leftover in tags.sh
Noticed by Jike.

Reported-by: "Jike Song" <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:26 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
4307184f2b kbuild: in headers_install autoconvert asm/inline/volatile to __xxx__
Headers in userspace should be using the __xxx__ form of the asm, inline,
and volatile keywords.  Since people like to revert these things without
realizing what's going on, have the headers install step autoconvert these
keywords.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:24 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
7e557a2509 kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspace
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:23 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
46b8af50ba headers_check.pl: disallow extern's
Since prototypes with "extern" refer to kernel functions, they make no
sense in userspace, so reject them automatically.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
[sam: made it into a warning]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:22 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
7826005e5a kconfig: improve error messages for bad source statements
We now say where we detect the second source of a file,
and where we detect a recursively source of the same file.
This makes it easier to fix such errors.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:22 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
cf82607a90 kconfig: struct property commented
No functional changes

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:21 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
5b2cf365a8 kconfig: add comments to symbol flags
No functional changes - only comments.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:21 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
eaa2a87460 kconfig: explain symbol value defaults
Added a few comments - no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
96faec945f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits)
  allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
  kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko
  kbuild: simplify use of genksyms
  kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations
  kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files
  kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh
  kbuild: fix make tags/cscope
  kbuild: fix make incompatibility
  kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE
  setlocalversion: add git-svn support
  setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision
  scripts: improve the decodecode script
  scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm
  genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes
  genksyms: track symbol checksum changes
  tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script
  kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh
  kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names
  remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
  kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent
  ...
2008-12-28 15:13:48 -08:00
Jan Beulich
9bb482476c allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.

The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.

While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 22:47:10 +01:00
Jan Beulich
ad7a953c52 kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko
This patch changes the way __crc_ symbols are being resolved from
using ld to do so to using the assembler, thus allowing these symbols
to be marked local (the linker creates then as global ones) and hence
allow stripping (for modules) or ignoring (for vmlinux) them. While at
this, also strip other generated symbols during module installation.

One potentially debatable point is the handling of the flags passeed
to gcc when translating the intermediate assembly file into an object:
passing $(c_flags) unchanged doesn't work as gcc passes --gdwarf2 to
gas whenever is sees any -g* option, even for -g0, and despite the
fact that the compiler would have already produced all necessary debug
info in the C->assembly translation phase. I took the approach of just
filtering out all -g* options, but an alternative to such negative
filtering might be to have a positive filter which might, in the ideal
case allow just all the -Wa,* options to pass through.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 22:41:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
37a8d9f67f kbuild: simplify use of genksyms
Avoid duplicating long list of options in two places

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 22:00:58 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
a1d94aa556 kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations
Add functionality to check for function parameters or structure (or
union/typedef/enum) field members that are described in kernel-doc but
are not part of the expected (declared) parameters or structure.
These generate warnings that are called "Excess" descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 18:27:19 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
179efcb47d kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-18 20:18:04 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
a6ba0cb35d kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh
Test of string equality in shells is =, not C-like ==.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-14 00:15:09 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
709cc372ca kbuild: fix make tags/cscope
- fix combining O=... and tags
- don't allow * expansion during sh function calls

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
[sam: use KBUILD_SRC to check if we use O=...]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-14 00:15:09 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
a0343e8231 tracing/function-graph-tracer: add a new .irqentry.text section
Impact: let the function-graph-tracer be aware of the irq entrypoints

Add a new .irqentry.text section to store the irq entrypoints functions
inside the same section. This way, the tracer will be able to signal
an interrupts triggering on output by recognizing these entrypoints.

Also, make this section recordable for dynamic tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 11:14:07 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
abf681ce5b kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE
Given that there is no usage of a TAR_IGNORE variable remove it

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-05 19:50:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b8307db247 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/core 2008-12-04 09:07:19 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
ff80aa97c9 setlocalversion: add git-svn support
Print svn revision in addition to git info on git-svn repos.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:58:30 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
167d6a02c1 setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision
Output svn revision of latest change, instead of repo revision as thats
what we're interested in (especially when working on a branch/tag).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:58:29 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
846442c8dd scripts: improve the decodecode script
kerneloops.org has been using an improved "decodecode" script,
specifically it has a special marker that shows which line in the assembly
the oops happened at, like this:

  20:	83 e0 03             	and    $0x3,%eax
  23:	09 d8                	or     %ebx,%eax
  25:	85 db                	test   %ebx,%ebx
  27:	89 02                	mov    %eax,(%edx)
  29:	74 0f                	je     0x3a
  2b:*	3b 73 04             	cmp    0x4(%ebx),%esi     <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	75 05                	jne    0x35
  30:	89 53 04             	mov    %edx,0x4(%ebx)
  33:	eb 07                	jmp    0x3c
  35:	89 53 08             	mov    %edx,0x8(%ebx)

this patch updates the kernel copy to also have this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:36:39 +01:00
Jeremy Kerr
c39dd50240 scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm
Add a RPMOPTS make variable to allow arbitrary options to be passed
to rpm during 'make rpm-pkg'. For example:

 make RPMOPTS="--define '_topdir /home/jk/rpm'" rpm-pkg

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:35:06 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
5dae9a550a genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes
This adds an "override" keyword for use in *.symvers / *.symref files.
When a symbol is overridden, the symbol's old definition will be used for
computing checksums instead of the new one, preserving the previous
checksum.  (Genksyms will still warn about the change.)

This is meant to allow distributions to hide minor actual as well as fake
ABI changes.  (For example, when extra type information becomes available
because additional headers are included, this may change checksums even
though none of the types used have actully changed.)

This approach also allows to get rid of "#ifdef __GENKSYMS__" hacks in the
code, which are currently used in some vendor kernels to work around
checksum changes.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:33:12 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
64e6c1e123 genksyms: track symbol checksum changes
Sometimes it is preferable to avoid changes of exported symbol checksums
(to avoid breaking externally provided modules).  When a checksum change
occurs, it can be hard to figure out what caused this change: underlying
types may have changed, or additional type information may simply have
become available at the point where a symbol is exported.

Add a new --reference option to genksyms which allows it to report why
checksums change, based on the type information dumps it creates with the
--dump-types flag.  Genksyms will read in such a dump from a previous run,
and report which symbols have changed (and why).

The behavior can be controlled for an entire build as follows: If
KBUILD_SYMTYPES is set, genksyms uses --dump-types to produce *.symtypes
dump files.  If any *.symref files exist, those will be used as the
reference to check against.  If KBUILD_PRESERVE is set, checksum changes
will fail the build.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 22:33:11 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
a680eedc6c tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script
as they do not benefit from the make functionality.

Moving the support to a shell script has several benefits:
- The readability of the code has increased a lot
- More people is able to extend the tags support
- We see less changes to the top-level Makefile

The shell script version includes improvements from:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> (jump to kconfig symbols)
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> (drop ./ in paths)
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> (simplified find algorithms)

This version has a few caveats:
=> It does not support ALLSOURCE_ARCHS
   - it is easy to add if it is really used
=> It assumes all archs have moved to arch/$ARCH/include
   - until that happens we have a few additional hits in the archs

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
2008-12-03 22:24:13 +01:00