Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig

 - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script

 - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

 - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
   default

 - Fix warnings in RPM package builds

 - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
   base DTB and overlays

 - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig

 - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig

 - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
   package builds

 - Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
   environment variable

 - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0

 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms

 - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/

 - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
   Arch Linux

 - Clean up Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
  kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
  kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
  kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
  kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
  kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
  kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
  kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
  modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
  kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
  Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
  kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
  kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
  kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
  kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
  kbuild: Abort make on install failures
  kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
  kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
  kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
  kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
  ...

Author: torvalds

.gitignore

@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ modules.order
 #
 /tar-install/
 
+#
+# pacman files (make pacman-pkg)
+#
+/PKGBUILD
+/pacman/
+
 #
 # We don't want to ignore the following even if they are dot-files
 #

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst

@@ -409,16 +409,9 @@ choices::
 	"endchoice"
 
 This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
-options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate.  If no type is
-specified for a choice, its type will be determined by the type of
-the first choice element in the group or remain unknown if none of the
-choice elements have a type specified, as well.
-
-While a boolean choice only allows a single config entry to be
-selected, a tristate choice also allows any number of config entries
-to be set to 'm'. This can be used if multiple drivers for a single
-hardware exists and only a single driver can be compiled/loaded into
-the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules.
+options.
+
+A choice only allows a single config entry to be selected.
 
 comment::
 

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst

@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ cc-option
   Note: cc-option uses KBUILD_CFLAGS for $(CC) options
 
 cc-option-yn
-  cc-option-yn is used to check if gcc supports a given option
+  cc-option-yn is used to check if $(CC) supports a given option
   and return "y" if supported, otherwise "n".
 
   Example::
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ cc-option-yn
   Note: cc-option-yn uses KBUILD_CFLAGS for $(CC) options
 
 cc-disable-warning
-  cc-disable-warning checks if gcc supports a given warning and returns
+  cc-disable-warning checks if $(CC) supports a given warning and returns
   the commandline switch to disable it. This special function is needed,
   because gcc 4.4 and later accept any unknown -Wno-* option and only
   warn about it if there is another warning in the source file.
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ cc-disable-warning
     KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
 
   In the above example, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable will be added to
-  KBUILD_CFLAGS only if gcc really accepts it.
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS only if $(CC) really accepts it.
 
 gcc-min-version
   gcc-min-version tests if the value of $(CONFIG_GCC_VERSION) is greater than

Documentation/process/changes.rst

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  13.0.1           clang --version
 Rust (optional)        1.78.0           rustc --version
 bindgen (optional)     0.65.1           bindgen --version
-GNU make               3.82             make --version
+GNU make               4.0              make --version
 bash                   4.2              bash --version
 binutils               2.25             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ It depends on ``libclang``.
 Make
 ----
 
-You will need GNU make 3.82 or later to build the kernel.
+You will need GNU make 4.0 or later to build the kernel.
 
 Bash
 ----

MAINTAINERS

@@ -12117,6 +12117,7 @@ F:	scripts/Makefile*
 F:	scripts/basic/
 F:	scripts/clang-tools/
 F:	scripts/dummy-tools/
+F:	scripts/include/
 F:	scripts/mk*
 F:	scripts/mod/
 F:	scripts/package/
@@ -12172,6 +12173,13 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/nfsd/
 F:	include/uapi/linux/sunrpc/
 F:	net/sunrpc/
 
+KERNEL PACMAN PACKAGING (in addition to generic KERNEL BUILD)
+M:	Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
+R:	Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>
+R:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
+S:	Maintained
+F:	scripts/package/PKGBUILD
+
 KERNEL REGRESSIONS
 M:	Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
 L:	regressions@lists.linux.dev

Makefile

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ NAME = Baby Opossum Posse
 # Comments in this file are targeted only to the developer, do not
 # expect to learn how to build the kernel reading this file.
 
-ifeq ($(filter undefine,$(.FEATURES)),)
-$(error GNU Make >= 3.82 is required. Your Make version is $(MAKE_VERSION))
+ifeq ($(filter output-sync,$(.FEATURES)),)
+$(error GNU Make >= 4.0 is required. Your Make version is $(MAKE_VERSION))
 endif
 
 $(if $(filter __%, $(MAKECMDGOALS)), \
@@ -93,15 +93,7 @@ endif
 
 # If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of
 # commands
-# make-4.0 (and later) keep single letter options in the 1st word of MAKEFLAGS.
-
-ifeq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)
-short-opts := $(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))
-else
-short-opts := $(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))
-endif
-
-ifneq ($(findstring s,$(short-opts)),)
+ifneq ($(findstring s,$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))),)
 quiet=silent_
 override KBUILD_VERBOSE :=
 endif
@@ -201,14 +193,6 @@ ifneq ($(words $(subst :, ,$(abs_srctree))), 1)
 $(error source directory cannot contain spaces or colons)
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)
-# 'MAKEFLAGS += -rR' does not immediately become effective for GNU Make 3.x
-# We need to invoke sub-make to avoid implicit rules in the top Makefile.
-need-sub-make := 1
-# Cancel implicit rules for this Makefile.
-$(this-makefile): ;
-endif
-
 export sub_make_done := 1
 
 endif # sub_make_done
@@ -474,8 +458,10 @@ export rust_common_flags := --edition=2021 \
 			    -Dclippy::no_mangle_with_rust_abi \
 			    -Wclippy::dbg_macro
 
-KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS   := $(KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS) $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCFLAGS)
-KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS := -Wall -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCXXFLAGS)
+KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS   := $(KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS) $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) \
+		       $(HOSTCFLAGS) -I $(srctree)/scripts/include
+KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS := -Wall -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCXXFLAGS) \
+		       -I $(srctree)/scripts/include
 KBUILD_HOSTRUSTFLAGS := $(rust_common_flags) -O -Cstrip=debuginfo \
 			-Zallow-features= $(HOSTRUSTFLAGS)
 KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS  := $(HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS) $(HOSTLDFLAGS)
@@ -1344,6 +1330,12 @@ prepare: tools/bpf/resolve_btfids
 endif
 endif
 
+# The tools build system is not a part of Kbuild and tends to introduce
+# its own unique issues. If you need to integrate a new tool into Kbuild,
+# please consider locating that tool outside the tools/ tree and using the
+# standard Kbuild "hostprogs" syntax instead of adding a new tools/* entry
+# here. See Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst for details.
+
 PHONY += resolve_btfids_clean
 
 resolve_btfids_O = $(abspath $(objtree))/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids
@@ -1497,7 +1489,7 @@ CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
 # Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
 MRPROPER_FILES += include/config include/generated          \
 		  arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated .objdiff \
-		  debian snap tar-install \
+		  debian snap tar-install PKGBUILD pacman \
 		  .config .config.old .version \
 		  Module.symvers \
 		  certs/signing_key.pem \

arch/arm/Kconfig

@@ -1483,7 +1483,8 @@ config ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
 	  from the ATAG list and store it at run time into the appended DTB.
 
 choice
-	prompt "Kernel command line type" if ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
+	prompt "Kernel command line type"
+	depends on ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
 	default ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
 
 config ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
@@ -1512,7 +1513,8 @@ config CMDLINE
 	  memory size and the root device (e.g., mem=64M root=/dev/nfs).
 
 choice
-	prompt "Kernel command line type" if CMDLINE != ""
+	prompt "Kernel command line type"
+	depends on CMDLINE != ""
 	default CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
 
 config CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER

arch/arm/boot/install.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 #   $3 - kernel map file
 #   $4 - default install path (blank if root directory)
 
+set -e
+
 if [ "$(basename $2)" = "zImage" ]; then
 # Compressed install
   echo "Installing compressed kernel"

arch/arm64/Kconfig

@@ -2290,7 +2290,8 @@ config CMDLINE
 	  root device (e.g. root=/dev/nfs).
 
 choice
-	prompt "Kernel command line type" if CMDLINE != ""
+	prompt "Kernel command line type"
+	depends on CMDLINE != ""
 	default CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
 	help
 	  Choose how the kernel will handle the provided default kernel

arch/arm64/boot/install.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 #   $3 - kernel map file
 #   $4 - default install path (blank if root directory)
 
+set -e
+
 if [ "$(basename $2)" = "Image.gz" ] || [ "$(basename $2)" = "vmlinuz.efi" ]
 then
 # Compressed install