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Michael Ellerman 117acf5c29 powerpc/Makefile: Always pass --synthetic to nm if supported
Back in 2004 we added logic to arch/ppc64/Makefile to pass
the --synthetic option to nm, if it was supported by nm.

Then in 2005 when arch/ppc64 and arch/ppc were merged, the logic to
add --synthetic was moved inside an #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 block within
arch/powerpc/Makefile, and has remained there since.

That was fine, though crufty, until recently when a change to
init/Kconfig added a config time check that uses $(NM). On powerpc
that leads to an infinite loop because Kconfig uses $(NM) to calculate
some values, then the powerpc Makefile changes $(NM), which Kconfig
notices and restarts.

The original commit that added --synthetic simply said:
  On new toolchains we need to use nm --synthetic or we miss code
  symbols.

And the nm man page says that the --synthetic option causes nm to:
  Include synthetic symbols in the output. These are special symbols
  created by the linker for various purposes.

So it seems safe to always pass --synthetic if nm supports it, ie. on
32-bit and 64-bit, it just means 32-bit kernels might have more
symbols reported (and in practice I see no extra symbols). Making it
unconditional avoids the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64, which in turn avoids the
infinite loop.

Debugged-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-20 10:01:18 +01:00
arch powerpc/Makefile: Always pass --synthetic to nm if supported 2019-08-20 10:01:18 +01:00
block for-linus-20190726-2 2019-07-26 19:20:34 -07:00
certs
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Documentation HMM patches for 5.3-rc 2019-07-30 12:54:44 -07:00
drivers ACPI/IORT: Rename arm_smmu_v3_set_proximity() 'node' local variable 2019-08-05 11:06:34 +01:00
fs Merge tag 'xfs-5.3-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux 2019-08-03 10:43:44 -07:00
include Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-08-03 09:20:49 -07:00
init init/Kconfig: Fix infinite Kconfig recursion on PPC 2019-08-07 16:20:57 +01:00
ipc
kernel memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/ 2019-08-03 07:02:01 -07:00
lib Kbuild fixes for v5.3 (2nd) 2019-08-04 10:16:30 -07:00
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mm memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/ 2019-08-03 07:02:01 -07:00
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samples treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers again 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
scripts arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations 2019-08-05 12:35:35 +01:00
security selinux/stable-5.3 PR 20190801 2019-08-02 18:40:49 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc3 2019-08-02 08:53:34 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-08-03 10:58:46 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Geert as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-08-04 10:23:23 -07:00
Makefile arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations 2019-08-05 12:35:35 +01:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.