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2019-03-09Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds7-77/+177
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas" * tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...
2019-03-07configs: get rid of obsolete CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATEDAlexey Brodkin1-1/+1
This Kconfig option was removed during v4.19 development in commit 771c035372a0 ("deprecate the '__deprecated' attribute warnings entirely and for good") so there's no point to keep it in defconfigs any longer. FWIW defconfigs were patched with: --------------------------->8---------------------- find . -name *_defconfig -exec sed -i '/CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED/d' {} \; --------------------------->8---------------------- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128152434.41969-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-04Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioningZenghui Yu1-25/+22
As linux-5.0 is coming up soon, the howto.rst document can be updated for the new kernel version. Instead of changing all 4.x references to 5.x, this time we git rid of all explicit version numbers and rework some kernel trees' name to keep the docs current and real. Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghuiyu96@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split linesSean Christopherson1-2/+4
...and use a commit with an obnoxiously long summary in the example to make it abundantly clear that keeping the tag on a single line takes priority over wrapping at 75 columns. Without the explicit exemption, one might assume splitting the tag is acceptable, even encouraged, e.g. due to being conditioned by checkpatch's line length warning. Per Stephen's scripts[1] and implied by commit bf4daf12a9fb ("checkpatch: avoid some commit message long line warnings"), splitting the 'Fixes:' tag across multiple lines is a no-no, presumably because parsing multi- line tags is unnecessarily painful. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190216183433.71b7cfa7@canb.auug.org.au Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22doc: fix typos in license-rules.rstFederico Vaga1-2/+2
The patches fixes some typos in process/license-rules.rst Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patchesFederico Vaga1-1/+0
The following patch forgot to remove a reference to the -git patches commit 2c71d305caf9 ("docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patches") This patch complete the removal and update all translations Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17Merge branch 'docs-5.0-fix' into docs-nextJonathan Corbet1-56/+61
Pick up Arnd's fix here as well.
2019-02-17Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.xArnd Bergmann1-56/+61
As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match, in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here, which I changed to using lowercase consistently. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-11docs: process: Remove outdated info about -git patchesJonathan Neuschäfer1-9/+0
As can be seen by clicking around the timeline on web.archive.org[1], there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org since release 3.1. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111103073843/http://www.kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-11module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosityThomas Gleixner1-0/+62
The original MODULE_LICENSE string for kernel modules licensed under the GPL v2 (only / or later) was simply "GPL", which was - and still is - completely sufficient for the purpose of module loading and checking whether the module is free software or proprietary. In January 2003 this was changed with commit 3344ea3ad4b7 ("[PATCH] MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL support"). This commit can be found in the history git repository which holds the 1:1 import of Linus' bitkeeper repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=3344ea3ad4b7c302c846a680dbaeedf96ed45c02 The main intention of the patch was to refuse linking proprietary modules against symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() at module load time. As a completely undocumented side effect it also introduced the distinction between "GPL" and "GPL v2" MODULE_LICENSE() strings: * "GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later] * "GPL v2" [GNU Public License v2] * "GPL and additional rights" [GNU Public License v2 rights and more] * "Dual BSD/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 * or BSD license choice] * "Dual MPL/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 * or Mozilla license choice] This distinction was and still is wrong in several aspects: 1) It broke all modules which were using the "GPL" string in the MODULE_LICENSE() already and were licensed under GPL v2 only. A quick license scan over the tree at that time shows that at least 480 out of 1484 modules have been affected by this change back then. The number is probably way higher as this was just a quick check for clearly identifiable license information. There was exactly ONE instance of a "GPL v2" module license string in the kernel back then - drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c which otherwise had no license information at all. There is no indication that the change above is any way related to this driver. The change happend with the 2.4.11 release which was on Oct. 9 2001 - so quite some time before the above commit. Unfortunately there is no trace on the intertubes to any discussion of this. 2) The dual licensed strings became ill defined as well because following the "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" distinction all dual licensed (or additional rights) MODULE_LICENSE strings would either require those dual licensed modules to be licensed under GPL v2 or later or just be unspecified for the dual licensing case. Neither choice is coherent with the GPL distinction. Due to the lack of a proper changelog and no real discussion on the patch submission other than a few implementation details, it's completely unclear why this distinction was introduced at all. Other than the comment in the module header file exists no documentation for this at all. From a license compliance and license scanning POV this distinction is a total nightmare. As of 5.0-rc2 2873 out of 9200 instances of MODULE_LICENSE() strings are conflicting with the actual license in the source code (either SPDX or license boilerplate/reference). A comparison between the scan of the history tree and a scan of current Linus tree shows to the extent that the git rename detection over Linus tree grafted with the history tree is halfways complete that almost none of the files which got broken in 2003 have been cleaned up vs. the MODULE_LICENSE string. So subtracting those 480 known instances from the conflicting 2800 of today more than 25% of the module authors got it wrong and it's a high propability that a large portion of the rest just got it right by chance. There is no value for the module loader to convey the detailed license information as the only decision to be made is whether the module is free software or not. The "and additional rights", "BSD" and "MPL" strings are not conclusive license information either. So there is no point in trying to make the GPL part conclusive and exact. As shown above it's already non conclusive for dual licensing and incoherent with a large portion of the module source. As an unintended side effect this distinction causes a major headache for license compliance, license scanners and the ongoing effort to clean up the license mess of the kernel. Therefore remove the well meant, but ill defined, distinction between "GPL" and "GPL v2" and document that: - "GPL" and "GPL v2" both express that the module is licensed under GPLv2 (without a distinction of 'only' and 'or later') and is therefore kernel license compliant. - None of the MODULE_LICENSE strings can be used for expressing or determining the exact license - Their sole purpose is to decide whether the module is free software or not. Add a MODULE_LICENSE subsection to the license rule documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> [jc: Did s/merily/merely/ ] Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatibleAdam Borowski1-7/+7
Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are all fine, not just GPL. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> [jc: fixed conflict and refilled paragraph] Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01stable-kernel-rules.rst: add link to networking patch queueGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+3
The networking maintainer keeps a public list of the patches being queued up for the next round of stable releases. Be sure to check there before asking for a patch to be applied so that you do not waste people's time. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01doc: Change LXR references to elixir.bootlin.comJonathan Neuschäfer2-2/+2
Recently, Free Electrons was renamed to Bootlin[1]. Less recently, the Linux Cross Reference (LXR) at lxr.free-electrons.com was replaced by Elixir[2], and lxr.free-electrons.com redirected first to elixir.free-electrons.com and now to elixir.bootlin.com. [1]: https://bootlin.com/blog/free-electrons-becomes-bootlin/ [2]: https://github.com/free-electrons/elixir Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Reviewed-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com> Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20coding-style: Clarify the expectations around boolJason Gunthorpe1-4/+34
There has been some confusion since checkpatch started warning about bool use in structures, and people have been avoiding using it. Many people feel there is still a legitimate place for bool in structures, so provide some guidance on bool usage derived from the entire thread that spawned the checkpatch warning. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFwVZk1OfB9T2v014PTAKFhtVan_Zj2dOjnCy3x6E4UJfA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20doc:process: add missing internal link in stable-kernel-rulesFederico Vaga1-3/+3
Keep consistent the document. In the document, option references are always linked, except for the one I fixed with this patch Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-20doc:process: remove note from 'stable api nonsense'Federico Vaga1-2/+1
The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just remove that old note. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-14Documentation: fix coding-style.rst Sphinx warningRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix Sphinx warning in coding-style.rst: Documentation/process/coding-style.rst:446: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-07Documentation/CodingStyle: Use directory-local variables for emacs settingsBart Van Assche1-20/+37
In emacs 23.1 support for directory-local variables was added (see also https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html). Simplify the settings in coding-style.rst by using that feature. Additionally, do not inherit any settings from emacs' linux coding style to minimize dependencies on the version of emacs that is being used. I have verified with several large and nontrivial kernel source files that the new settings format code according to what checkpatch expects. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Cc: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com> Cc: Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-01-04docs: fix Co-Developed-by docsJorge Ramirez-Ortiz1-2/+2
The accepted terminology will be Co-developed-by therefore lose the capital letter from now on. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544808928-20002-2-git-send-email-jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-04Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: don't use "extern" with function ↵Alexey Dobriyan1-0/+3
prototypes `extern' with function prototypes makes lines longer and creates more characters on the screen. Do not bug people with checkpatch.pl warnings for now as fallout can be devastating. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181101134153.GA29267@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-12-06doc:process: add links where missingFederico Vaga8-26/+35
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this patch I add those missing links. This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where necessary. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-20doc:it_IT: add some process/* translationsFederico Vaga6-1/+14
This patch does not translate entirely the subfolder "process/" but only part of it (to begin with). In order to avoid broken links, I included empty documents for those which are not yet translated. In order to be able to refer to all documents in "process/", I added a sphinx label to those which had not one. Translated documents: - howto - 1.Intro - clang-format - coding-style - kernel-driver-statement - magic-number - volatile-considered-harmful - development-process Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Alessia Mantegazza <amantegazza@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-01Merge tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+46
https://github.com/ojeda/linux Pull compiler attribute updates from Miguel Ojeda: "This is an effort to disentangle the include/linux/compiler*.h headers and bring them up to date. The main idea behind the series is to use feature checking macros (i.e. __has_attribute) instead of compiler version checks (e.g. GCC_VERSION), which are compiler-agnostic (so they can be shared, reducing the size of compiler-specific headers) and version-agnostic. Other related improvements have been performed in the headers as well, which on top of the use of __has_attribute it has amounted to a significant simplification of these headers (e.g. GCC_VERSION is now only guarding a few non-attribute macros). This series should also help the efforts to support compiling the kernel with clang and icc. A fair amount of documentation and comments have also been added, clarified or removed; and the headers are now more readable, which should help kernel developers in general. The series was triggered due to the move to gcc >= 4.6. In turn, this series has also triggered Sparse to gain the ability to recognize __has_attribute on its own. Finally, the __nonstring variable attribute series has been also applied on top; plus two related patches from Nick Desaulniers for unreachable() that came a bit afterwards" * tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-4.20-rc1' of https://github.com/ojeda/linux: compiler-gcc: remove comment about gcc 4.5 from unreachable() compiler.h: update definition of unreachable() Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation on W=1 (gcc >= 8) Compiler Attributes: add support for __nonstring (gcc >= 8) Compiler Attributes: add MAINTAINERS entry Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes
2018-10-24Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds6-8/+132
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...
2018-10-22Code of Conduct: Change the contact email addressGreg Kroah-Hartman1-6/+7
The contact point for the kernel's Code of Conduct should now be the Code of Conduct Committee, not the full TAB. Change the email address in the file to properly reflect this. Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22Code of Conduct Interpretation: Put in the proper URL for the committeeGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+3
There was a blank <URL> reference for how to find the Code of Conduct Committee. Fix that up by pointing it to the correct kernel.org website page location. Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22Code of Conduct: Provide links between the two documentsGreg Kroah-Hartman2-1/+11
Create a link between the Code of Conduct and the Code of Conduct Interpretation so that people can see that they are related. Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22Code of Conduct Interpretation: Properly reference the TAB correctlyGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+8
We use the term "TAB" before defining it later in the document. Fix that up by defining it at the first location. Reported-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22Code of Conduct Interpretation: Add document explaining how the Code of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman2-0/+154
Conduct is to be interpreted The Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct is a general document meant to provide a set of rules for almost any open source community. Every open-source community is unique and the Linux kernel is no exception. Because of this, this document describes how we in the Linux kernel community will interpret it. We also do not expect this interpretation to be static over time, and will adjust it as needed. This document was created with the input and feedback of the TAB as well as many current kernel maintainers. Co-Developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-Developed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org> Acked-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Christian Lütke-Stetzkamp <christian@lkamp.de> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Acked-by: David Sterba <kdave@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Acked-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Mishi Choudhary <mishi@linux.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Acked-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Acked-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-22Code of conduct: Fix wording around maintainers enforcing the code of conductChris Mason1-4/+0
As it was originally worded, this paragraph requires maintainers to enforce the code of conduct, or face potential repercussions. It sends the wrong message, when really we just want maintainers to be part of the solution and not violate the code of conduct themselves. Removing it doesn't limit our ability to enforce the code of conduct, and we can still encourage maintainers to help maintain high standards for the level of discourse in their subsystem. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christian Lütke-Stetzkamp <christian@lkamp.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Acked-by: David Sterba <kdave@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Acked-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Acked-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-18docs: Introduce deprecated APIs listKees Cook2-0/+120
As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this makes an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the kernel, by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rstGuillaume Dore1-1/+1
There was a typo in adding-syscalls.rst that could mislead developers to add a C filename in a makefile instead of an object filename. This error, while not keeping developers from contributing could slow the development process down by introducing build errors. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Dore <corwin@poussif.eu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-30Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rstMiguel Ojeda2-0/+46
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # on top of v4.19-rc5, clang 7 Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
2018-09-16Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.Greg Kroah-Hartman3-29/+82
The Code of Conflict is not achieving its implicit goal of fostering civility and the spirit of 'be excellent to each other'. Explicit guidelines have demonstrated success in other projects and other areas of the kernel. Here is a Code of Conduct statement for the wider kernel. It is based on the Contributor Covenant as described at www.contributor-covenant.org From this point forward, we should abide by these rules in order to help make the kernel community a welcoming environment to participate in. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lxom.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-09-03kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}configMasahiro Yamada1-1/+1
Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression: "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this case, pkg-config is useless. pkg-config is needed only when libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines where make menuconfig would be possibly run." For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed. For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it for finding the installation paths of the required packages. Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config") Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2018-08-31docs: tidy up TOCs and refs to license-rules.rstMarkus Heiser3-6/+10
The documentation and TOCs are organized in a manner of a tree. Adding a TOC to the root, which refers to a file which is located in a subfolder forms a grid. Those TOCs are a bit confusing and thats why we get additional error messages while building partial documentation:: $ make SPHINXDIRS=process htmldocs ... checking consistency... Documentation/process/license-rules.rst: \ WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree To fix it, the *root-license-TOC* is replaced by a reference and the 'license-roles.txt' is added to the Documentation/process/index.rst TOC. BTW: there was an old licences remark in Documentation/process/howto.rst which is also updated, mentioning SPDX and pointing to the license-rules.rst Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-31docs: fix typo in table describing 4.16 development cycleAkinobu Mita1-1/+1
Fix s/4.17/4.16/ typo. Fixes: 8962e40c1993 ("docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables") Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-20Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6Joe Perches1-1/+1
Various architectures fail to build properly with older versions of the gcc compiler. An example from Guenter Roeck in thread [1]: > > In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:17:0, > from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7, > from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10, > from arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:32: > ./include/linux/mm_types.h:497:16: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct > > This is just an example with gcc 4.5.1 for or32. I have seen the problem > with gcc 4.4 (for unicore32) as well. So update the minimum required version of gcc to 4.6. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814170904.GA12768@roeck-us.net/ Miscellanea: - Update Documentation/process/changes.rst - Remove and consolidate version test blocks in compiler-gcc.h for versions lower than 4.6 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2-1/+2
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: - Gustavo A. R. Silva keeps working on the implicit switch fallthru changes. - Support 802.11ax High-Efficiency wireless in cfg80211 et al, From Luca Coelho. - Re-enable ASPM in r8169, from Kai-Heng Feng. - Add virtual XFRM interfaces, which avoids all of the limitations of existing IPSEC tunnels. From Steffen Klassert. - Convert GRO over to use a hash table, so that when we have many flows active we don't traverse a long list during accumluation. - Many new self tests for routing, TC, tunnels, etc. Too many contributors to mention them all, but I'm really happy to keep seeing this stuff. - Hardware timestamping support for dpaa_eth/fsl-fman from Yangbo Lu. - Lots of cleanups and fixes in L2TP code from Guillaume Nault. - Add IPSEC offload support to netdevsim, from Shannon Nelson. - Add support for slotting with non-uniform distribution to netem packet scheduler, from Yousuk Seung. - Add UDP GSO support to mlx5e, from Boris Pismenny. - Support offloading of Team LAG in NFP, from John Hurley. - Allow to configure TX queue selection based upon RX queue, from Amritha Nambiar. - Support ethtool ring size configuration in aquantia, from Anton Mikaev. - Support DSCP and flowlabel per-transport in SCTP, from Xin Long. - Support list based batching and stack traversal of SKBs, this is very exciting work. From Edward Cree. - Busyloop optimizations in vhost_net, from Toshiaki Makita. - Introduce the ETF qdisc, which allows time based transmissions. IGB can offload this in hardware. From Vinicius Costa Gomes. - Add parameter support to devlink, from Moshe Shemesh. - Several multiplication and division optimizations for BPF JIT in nfp driver, from Jiong Wang. - Lots of prepatory work to make more of the packet scheduler layer lockless, when possible, from Vlad Buslov. - Add ACK filter and NAT awareness to sch_cake packet scheduler, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen. - Support regions and region snapshots in devlink, from Alex Vesker. - Allow to attach XDP programs to both HW and SW at the same time on a given device, with initial support in nfp. From Jakub Kicinski. - Add TLS RX offload and support in mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin. - Use PHYLIB in r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit. - All sorts of changes to support Spectrum 2 in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel. - PTP support in mv88e6xxx DSA driver, from Andrew Lunn. - Make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option more accurate, from Jon Maxwell. - Support for templates in packet scheduler classifier, from Jiri Pirko. - IPV6 support in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon. - Native tproxy support in nf_tables, from Máté Eckl. - Maintain IP fragment queue in an rbtree, but optimize properly for in-order frags. From Peter Oskolkov. - Improvde handling of ACKs on hole repairs, from Yuchung Cheng" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1996 commits) bpf: test: fix spelling mistake "REUSEEPORT" -> "REUSEPORT" hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback net: filter: mark expected switch fall-through xen-netfront: fix warn message as irq device name has '/' cxgb4: Add new T5 PCI device ids 0x50af and 0x50b0 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: missing unlock on error path rds: fix building with IPV6=m inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bitwise vs logical bug net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd() ieee802154: hwsim: using right kind of iteration net: hns3: Add vlan filter setting by ethtool command -K net: hns3: Set tx ring' tc info when netdev is up net: hns3: Remove tx ring BD len register in hns3_enet net: hns3: Fix desc num set to default when setting channel net: hns3: Fix for phy link issue when using marvell phy driver net: hns3: Fix for information of phydev lost problem when down/up net: hns3: Fix for command format parsing error in hclge_is_all_function_id_zero net: hns3: Add support for serdes loopback selftest bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack ...
2018-08-15Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not installed - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of Makefile - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory - do not try to update the .config when running install targets - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files - misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kconfig: remove P_ENV property type kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease' kbuild: do not update config when running install targets kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback() kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
2018-08-15Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-12/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - verify depmod is installed before modules_install - support build salt in case build ids must be unique between builds - allow users to specify additional host compiler flags via HOST*FLAGS, and rename internal variables to KBUILD_HOST*FLAGS - update buildtar script to drop vax support, add arm64 support - update builddeb script for better debarch support - document the pit-fall of if_changed usage - fix parallel build of UML with O= option - make 'samples' target depend on headers_install to fix build errors - remove deprecated host-progs variable - add a new coccinelle script for refcount_t vs atomic_t check - improve double-test coccinelle script - misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'kbuild-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits) coccicheck: return proper error code on fail Coccinelle: doubletest: reduce side effect false positives kbuild: remove deprecated host-progs variable kbuild: make samples really depend on headers_install um: clean up archheaders recipe kbuild: add %asm-generic to no-dot-config-targets um: fix parallel building with O= option scripts: Add Python 3 support to tracing/draw_functrace.py builddeb: Add automatic support for sh{3,4}{,eb} architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for riscv* architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for m68k architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for or1k architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for sparc64 architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for mips{,64}r6{,el} architectures builddeb: Add automatic support for mips64el architecture builddeb: Add automatic support for ppc64 and powerpcspe architectures builddeb: Introduce functions to simplify kconfig tests in set_debarch builddeb: Drop check for 32-bit s390 builddeb: Change architecture detection fallback to use dpkg-architecture builddeb: Skip architecture detection when KBUILD_DEBARCH is set ...
2018-08-10Remove gendered language from management style documentationFox Foster1-12/+13
This small commit replaces gendered pronouns for neutral ones. Signed-off-by: Fox Foster <fox@tardis.ed.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26docs: Update references to netdev-FAQTobin C. Harding1-1/+1
File 'Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt' has been converted to RST format. We should update all links/references to point to the new file. Update references to netdev-FAQ Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-26docs: Add rest label the_canonical_patch_formatTobin C. Harding1-0/+1
In preparation to convert Documentation/network/netdev-FAQ.rst to restructured text format. We would like to be able to reference 'the canonical patch format' section. Add rest label: 'the_canonical_patch_format'. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-18kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}configRandy Dunlap1-0/+8
Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-07-18kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installedRandy Dunlap1-12/+7
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-06-29Documentation/process/howto.rst: add a missing cross-referenceMichael Rodin1-1/+1
Add a missing cross-reference from Documentation/process/howto.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst. Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-26Documentation/process: fix reST table border errorRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix reST error in Documentation/process/: Documentation/process/2.Process.rst:131: ERROR: Malformed table. Bottom/header table border does not match top border. Fixes: 8962e40c1993 ("docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Tim Bird <tbird20d@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-04Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds5-45/+85
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
2018-05-23docs: update kernel versions and dates in tablesTim Bird1-34/+38
Every once in a while, we should update the examples to reflect more recent kernel versions. Update the tables describing kernel releases, the merge window, and current longterm maintained kernel, from 2.6-era kernels to 4.x. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>