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<updated>2022-01-19T09:15:19Z</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T09:15:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-01-19T09:15:19Z</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
   speed up the build and test iteration.

 - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

 - Refactor certs/Makefile

 - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
   string type CONFIG options.

 - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash

 - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
   the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)

 - Misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kbuild: add cmd_file_size
  arch: decompressor: remove useless vmlinux.bin.all-y
  kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}
  kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd
  sh: rename suffix-y to suffix_y
  doc: kbuild: fix default in `imply` table
  microblaze: use built-in function to get CPU_{MAJOR,MINOR,REV}
  certs: move scripts/extract-cert to certs/
  kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf
  kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts
  certs: simplify $(srctree)/ handling and remove config_filename macro
  kbuild: stop using config_filename in scripts/Makefile.modsign
  certs: remove misleading comments about GCC PR
  certs: refactor file cleaning
  certs: remove unneeded -I$(srctree) option for system_certificates.o
  certs: unify duplicated cmd_extract_certs and improve the log
  certs: use $&lt; and $@ to simplify the key generation rule
  kbuild: remove headers_check stub
  kbuild: move headers_check.pl to usr/include/
  certs: use if_changed to re-generate the key when the key type is changed
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2022-01-16T08:15:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-16T08:15:32Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New:

   - The Real Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tool is added to the tools
     directory.

   - Can safely filter on user space pointers with: field.ustring ~
     "match-string"

   - eprobes can now be filtered like any other event.

   - trace_marker(_raw) now uses stream_open() to allow multiple threads
     to safely write to it. Note, this could possibly break existing
     user space, but we will not know until we hear about it, and then
     can revert the change if need be.

   - New field in events to display when bottom halfs are disabled.

   - Sorting of the ftrace functions are now done at compile time
     instead of at bootup.

  Infrastructure changes to support future efforts:

   - Added __rel_loc type for trace events. Similar to __data_loc but
     the offset to the dynamic data is based off of the location of the
     descriptor and not the beginning of the event. Needed for user
     defined events.

   - Some simplification of event trigger code.

   - Make synthetic events process its callback better to not hinder
     other event callbacks that are registered. Needed for user defined
     events.

  And other small fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'trace-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (50 commits)
  tracing: Add ustring operation to filtering string pointers
  rtla: Add rtla timerlat hist documentation
  rtla: Add rtla timerlat top documentation
  rtla: Add rtla timerlat documentation
  rtla: Add rtla osnoise hist documentation
  rtla: Add rtla osnoise top documentation
  rtla: Add rtla osnoise man page
  rtla: Add Documentation
  rtla/timerlat: Add timerlat hist mode
  rtla: Add timerlat tool and timelart top mode
  rtla/osnoise: Add the hist mode
  rtla/osnoise: Add osnoise top mode
  rtla: Add osnoise tool
  rtla: Helper functions for rtla
  rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool
  tracing/osnoise: Properly unhook events if start_per_cpu_kthreads() fails
  tracing: Remove duplicate warnings when calling trace_create_file()
  tracing/kprobes: 'nmissed' not showed correctly for kretprobe
  tracing: Add test for user space strings when filtering on string pointers
  tracing: Have syscall trace events use trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve()
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<title>scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T21:23:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinan Liu</name>
<email>yinan@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-12T11:33:58Z</published>
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When the kernel starts, the initialization of ftrace takes
up a portion of the time (approximately 6~8ms) to sort mcount
addresses. We can save this time by moving mcount-sorting to
compile time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211212113358.34208-2-yinan@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Yinan Liu &lt;yinan@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts</title>
<updated>2022-01-08T08:46:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-14T02:53:52Z</published>
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Richard Weinberger pointed out the risk of sourcing the kernel config
from shell scripts [1], and proposed some patches [2], [3]. It is a good
point, but it took a long time because I was wondering how to fix this.

This commit goes with simple grep approach because there are only a few
scripts including the kernel configuration.

scripts/link_vmlinux.sh has references to a bunch of CONFIG options,
all of which are boolean. I added is_enabled() helper as
scripts/package/{mkdebian,builddeb} do.

scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh uses 'eval', stating "to expand the whitelist
path". I removed it since it is the issue we are trying to fix.

I was a bit worried about the cost of invoking the grep command over
again. I extracted the grep parts from it, and measured the cost. It
was approximately 0.03 sec, which I hope is acceptable.

[test code]

  $ cat test-grep.sh
  #!/bin/sh

  is_enabled() {
          grep -q "^$1=y" include/config/auto.conf
  }

  is_enabled CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  is_enabled CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  is_enabled CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
  is_enabled CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
  is_enabled CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
  is_enabled CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION
  is_enabled CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
  is_enabled CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
  is_enabled CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  is_enabled CONFIG_RETPOLINE
  is_enabled CONFIG_X86_SMAP
  is_enabled CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  is_enabled CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP
  is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
  is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
  is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
  is_enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
  is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS
  is_enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
  is_enabled CONFIG_BPF
  is_enabled CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
  is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS

  $ time ./test-grep.sh
  real    0m0.036s
  user    0m0.027s
  sys     m0.009s

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1919455.eZKeABUfgV@blindfold/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180219092245.26404-1-richard@nod.at/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210920213957.1064-2-richard@nod.at/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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<title>x86: Add straight-line-speculation mitigation</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T12:32:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-04T13:43:44Z</published>
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Make use of an upcoming GCC feature to mitigate
straight-line-speculation for x86:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/g:53a643f8568067d7700a9f2facc8ba39974973d3
  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102952
  https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52323

It's built tested on x86_64-allyesconfig using GCC-12 and GCC-11.

Maintenance overhead of this should be fairly low due to objtool
validation.

Size overhead of all these additional int3 instructions comes to:

     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  22267751	6933356	2011368	31212475	1dc43bb	defconfig-build/vmlinux
  22804126	6933356	1470696	31208178	1dc32f2	defconfig-build/vmlinux.sls

Or roughly 2.4% additional text.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211204134908.140103474@infradead.org
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2021-11-08T17:15:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-08T17:15:45Z</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the global -isystem compiler flag, which was made possible by
   the introduction of &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt;

 - Improve the Kconfig help to print the location in the top menu level

 - Fix "FORCE prerequisite is missing" build warning for sparc

 - Add new build targets, tarzst-pkg and perf-tarzst-src-pkg, which
   generate a zstd-compressed tarball

 - Prevent gen_init_cpio tool from generating a corrupted cpio when
   KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is set to 2106-02-07 or later

 - Misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits)
  kbuild: use more subdir- for visiting subdirectories while cleaning
  sh: remove meaningless archclean line
  initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive
  kbuild: split DEBUG_CFLAGS out to scripts/Makefile.debug
  gen_init_cpio: add static const qualifiers
  kbuild: Add make tarzst-pkg build option
  scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support
  sparc: Add missing "FORCE" target when using if_changed
  kconfig: refactor conf_touch_dep()
  kconfig: refactor conf_write_dep()
  kconfig: refactor conf_write_autoconf()
  kconfig: add conf_get_autoheader_name()
  kconfig: move sym_escape_string_value() to confdata.c
  kconfig: refactor listnewconfig code
  kconfig: refactor conf_write_symbol()
  kconfig: refactor conf_write_heading()
  kconfig: remove 'const' from the return type of sym_escape_string_value()
  kconfig: rename a variable in the lexer to a clearer name
  kconfig: narrow the scope of variables in the lexer
  kconfig: Create links to main menu items in search
  ...
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<title>kbuild: Unify options for BTF generation for vmlinux and modules</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T01:09:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-29T12:57:29Z</published>
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Using new PAHOLE_FLAGS variable to pass extra arguments to
pahole for both vmlinux and modules BTF data generation.

Adding new scripts/pahole-flags.sh script that detect and
prints pahole options.

[ fixed issues found by kernel test robot ]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211029125729.70002-1-jolsa@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support</title>
<updated>2021-10-12T02:50:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hui Su</name>
<email>suhui_kernel@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-08T11:24:38Z</published>
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update the comments of kallsyms support.

Fixes: af73d78bd384 ("kbuild: Remove debug info from kallsyms linking")
Signed-off-by: Hui Su &lt;suhui_kernel@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T23:17:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-19T00:57:39Z</published>
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For ARCH=um, ${CC} is used as the linker driver. Hence, the linker
options are prefixed with -Wl, .

Merge the similar code.

I replaced the -T option with the long option --script= so that it
works well with/without ${wl}.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T23:17:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-19T00:57:38Z</published>
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arch/um/Makefile passes the -f option to the ln command:

  linux: vmlinux
          @echo '  LINK $@'
          $(Q)ln -f $&lt; $@

So, the hard link is always re-created, and the old one is removed
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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