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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- add more Build-Depends to Debian source package
- prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
- make modpost show verbose section mismatch warnings
- avoid hard-coded CROSS_COMPILE for h8300
- fix regression for Debian make-kpkg command
- add semantic patch to detect missing put_device()
- fix some warnings of 'make deb-pkg'
- optimize NOSTDINC_FLAGS evaluation
- add warnings about redundant generic-y
- clean up Makefiles and scripts
* tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore
kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y
kbuild: warn redundant generic-y
Revert "modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails"
kbuild: Make NOSTDINC_FLAGS a simply expanded variable
kbuild: deb-pkg: avoid implicit effects
coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device()
kbuild: pkg: grep include/config/auto.conf instead of $KCONFIG_CONFIG
kbuild: deb-pkg: introduce is_enabled and if_enabled_echo to builddeb
kbuild: deb-pkg: add CONFIG_ prefix to kernel config options
kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg
kbuild: source include/config/auto.conf instead of ${KCONFIG_CONFIG}
unicore32: simplify linker script generation for decompressor
h8300: use cc-cross-prefix instead of hardcoding h8300-unknown-linux-
kbuild: move archive command to scripts/Makefile.lib
modpost: always show verbose warning for section mismatch
ia64: prefix header search path with $(srctree)/
libfdt: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
deb-pkg: generate correct build dependencies
Pull x86 asm updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two cleanup patches removing dead conditionals and unused code"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asm: Remove unused __constant_c_x_memset() macro and inlines
x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC__ conditionals
When this .gitignore was added, lxdialog was an independent hostprogs-y.
Now that all objects in lxdialog/ are directly linked to mconf, the
lxdialog is no longer generated.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three fixes for the fallout from the TSX errata workaround:
- Prevent memory corruption caused by a unchecked out of bound array
index.
- Two trivial fixes to address compiler warnings"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel: Make dev_attr_allow_tsx_force_abort static
perf/x86: Fixup typo in stub functions
perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption
Nothing refers to the __constant_c_x_memset() macro anymore. Remove
it and the two referenced static inline functions.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111084931.24601-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.
um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Pull xen fix from Juergen Gross:
"A fix for a Xen bug introduced by David's series for excluding
ballooned pages in vmcores"
* tag 'for-linus-5.1b-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/balloon: Fix mapping PG_offline pages to user space
Fixes: 400816f60c54 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort")
Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kbuild-all@01.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313184243.GA10820@lkp-sb-ep06
The minimum supported gcc version is >= 4.6, so these can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111084931.24601-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
The generic-y is redundant under the following condition:
- arch has its own implementation
- the same header is added to generated-y
- the same header is added to mandatory-y
If a redundant generic-y is found, the warning like follows is displayed:
scripts/Makefile.asm-generic:20: redundant generic-y found in arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild: timex.h
I fixed up arch Kbuild files found by this.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Pull 9p updates from Dominique Martinet:
"Here is a 9p update for 5.1; there honestly hasn't been much.
Two fixes (leak on invalid mount argument and possible deadlock on
i_size update on 32bit smp) and a fall-through warning cleanup"
* tag '9p-for-5.1' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux:
9p/net: fix memory leak in p9_client_create
9p: use inode->i_lock to protect i_size_write() under 32-bit
9p: mark expected switch fall-through
The XEN balloon driver - in contrast to other balloon drivers - allows
to map some inflated pages to user space. Such pages are allocated via
alloc_xenballooned_pages() and freed via free_xenballooned_pages().
The pfn space of these allocated pages is used to map other things
by the hypervisor using hypercalls.
Pages marked with PG_offline must never be mapped to user space (as
this page type uses the mapcount field of struct pages).
So what we can do is, clear/set PG_offline when allocating/freeing an
inflated pages. This way, most inflated pages can be excluded by
dumping tools and the "reused for other purpose" balloon pages are
correctly not marked as PG_offline.
Fixes: 77c4adf6a6df (xen/balloon: mark inflated pages PG_offline)
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Guenter reported a build warning for CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL=n:
> With allmodconfig-CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL, this patch results in:
>
> In file included from arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:8:0:
> arch/x86/events/amd/../perf_event.h:1036:45: warning: ‘struct cpu_hw_event’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> static inline int intel_cpuc_prepare(struct cpu_hw_event *cpuc, int cpu)
While harmless (an unsed pointer is an unused pointer, no matter the type)
it needs fixing.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d01b1f96a82e ("perf/x86/intel: Make cpuc allocations consistent")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190315081410.GR5996@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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