user/sven/linux.git/scripts/namespace.pl, branch v5.9.8

namespace: fix namespace.pl script to support relative paths

2019-10-05T06:29:49Z

The namespace.pl script does not work properly if objtree is not set to an absolute path. The do_nm function is run from within the find function, which changes directories. Because of this, appending objtree, $File::Find::dir, and $source, will return a path which is not valid from the current directory. This used to work when objtree was set to an absolute path when using "make namespacecheck". It appears to have not worked when calling ./scripts/namespace.pl directly. This behavior was changed in 7e1c04779efd ("kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)", 2014-05-14) Rather than fixing the Makefile to set objtree to an absolute path, just fix namespace.pl to work when srctree and objtree are relative. Also fix the script to use an absolute path for these by default. Use the File::Spec module for this purpose. It's been part of perl 5 since 5.005. The curdir() function is used to get the current directory when the objtree and srctree aren't set in the environment. rel2abs() is used to convert possibly relative objtree and srctree environment variables to absolute paths. Finally, the catfile() function is used instead of string appending paths together, since this is more robust when joining paths together. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a

2018-03-25T17:01:19Z

Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which is the usual extension for archive files. This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace: git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g' The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2: -libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y))) +libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y))) Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts: Switch to more portable Perl shebang

2017-05-14T02:20:44Z

The default NetBSD package manager is pkgsrc and it installs Perl along other third party programs under custom and configurable prefix. The default prefix for binary prebuilt packages is /usr/pkg, and the Perl executable lands in /usr/pkg/bin/perl. This change switches "/usr/bin/perl" to "/usr/bin/env perl" as it's the most portable solution that should work for almost everybody. Perl's executable is detected automatically. This change switches -w option passed to the executable with more modern "use warnings;" approach. There is no functional change to the default behavior. While there, drop "require 5" from scripts/namespace.pl (Perl from 1994?). Signed-off-by: Kamil Rytarowski Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table

2016-03-15T23:55:16Z

Similar to how relative extables are implemented, it is possible to emit the kallsyms table in such a way that it contains offsets relative to some anchor point in the kernel image rather than absolute addresses. On 64-bit architectures, it cuts the size of the kallsyms address table in half, since offsets between kernel symbols can typically be expressed in 32 bits. This saves several hundreds of kilobytes of permanent .rodata on average. In addition, the kallsyms address table is no longer subject to dynamic relocation when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is in effect, so the relocation work done after decompression now doesn't have to do relocation updates for all these values. This saves up to 24 bytes (i.e., the size of a ELF64 RELA relocation table entry) per value, which easily adds up to a couple of megabytes of uncompressed __init data on ppc64 or arm64. Even if these relocation entries typically compress well, the combined size reduction of 2.8 MB uncompressed for a ppc64_defconfig build (of which 2.4 MB is __init data) results in a ~500 KB space saving in the compressed image. Since it is useful for some architectures (like x86) to retain the ability to emit absolute values as well, this patch also adds support for capturing both absolute and relative values when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, by emitting absolute per-cpu addresses as positive 32-bit values, and addresses relative to the lowest encountered relative symbol as negative values, which are subtracted from the runtime address of this base symbol to produce the actual address. Support for the above is enabled by default for all architectures except IA-64 and Tile-GX, whose symbols are too far apart to capture in this manner. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions"

2010-10-27T22:59:56Z

This reverts commit 24a54f7974a616385b96cd939e004592e2cea484. Stephen Hemminger writes: > That patch should not be included. It causes more problems than it > solves, since then there are duplicate file locations which causes > false duplicate symbol reports. Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

namespace: add source file location exceptions

2010-10-27T22:29:48Z

Teach namespace checker about some special case files where the source is in unusual location. This fixes many of the source file not found errors (more can be added), and also prevents false positives for functions not being used. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct results

2010-10-27T22:07:46Z

Exclude more symbols from arch/x86/vdso/ and arch/x86/boot/; add some more linker-defined symbols into exception list; add other cond_syscalls besides "sys_*". Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixes

2010-10-27T22:07:46Z

1. Teach namespace.pl to understand "V" and "v" 2. cond_syscalls are moved into kernel/sys_ni.c Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion list

2010-10-27T22:07:45Z

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang Cc: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source path

2010-10-27T22:07:45Z

File::Find will do chdir automatically, so we need to get the absolute patch with $File::Find::dir. Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang Cc: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Marek