Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
We have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library
routines with all module objects.  The routines are intended for
handling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having
them as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to
link the same "library" code into the kernel).

Without this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail
to build modules with the added register save/restore module.

There were two obvious solutions:
1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage
2) To ignore the symbols in modpost

Option 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate
linking stage for single file modules.

This patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.

The symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:
_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

This version is a bit of a whopper.  This version brings a few new checks,
improvements to a number of checks mostly through modifications to the
way types are parsed, several fixes to quote/comment handling, as well as
the usual slew of fixes for false positives.

Of note:
 - return is not a function and is now reported,
 - preprocessor directive detection is loosened to match C99 standard,
 - we now intuit new type modifiers, and
 - comment handling is much improved

Andy Whitcroft (18):
      Version: 0.19
      fix up a couple of missing newlines in reports
      colon to parenthesis spacing varies on asm
      values: #include is a preprocessor statement
      quotes: fix single character quotes at line end
      add typedef exception for the non-pointer "function types"
      kerneldoc parameters must be on one line, relax line length
      types: word boundary is not always required
      improved #define bracketing reports
      uninitialized_var is an annotation not a function name
      possible types: add possible modifier handling
      possible types: fastcall is a type modifier
      types: unsigned is not a modifier on all types
      static/external initialisation to zero should allow modifiers
      checkpatch: fix recognition of preprocessor directives -- part 2
      comments: fix inter-hunk comment tracking
      return is not a function
      do not report include/asm/foo.h use in include/linux/foo.h
      return is not a function -- tighten test

[jengelh@computergmbh.de: fix recognition of preprocessor directives]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: fix $(src) assignmnet with external modules

When we introduced support for KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
we started to include the externam module's kbuild
file when doing the final modpost step.

As external modules often do:
ccflags-y := -I$(src)

We had problems because $(src) was unassinged and
gcc then used the next parameter for -I resulting in
strange build failures.

Fix is to assign $(src) and $(obj) when building
external modules.

This fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10798

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tvrtko <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>

.. because it is.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

These magic greps and hacks in ver_linux to get the gcc version always break after some gcc releases.

Since now gcc >4.3 allows compiling with '--with-pkgversion' ( which can be everything 'My Cool Gcc' or something )
ver_linux will report random junk for these.

Simply use 'gcc -dumpversion' to get the gcc version which should always work.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1) The field 'len' of the 'gstr' structure seems to track the size of the memory
already allocated for the "growable string". So the value of this field should be
the same as the 'malloc()' just above, shouldn't it ?

Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Allow for unnamed bit-fields and skip them instead of printing an
erroneous warning message for them, such as:

Warning(include/asm-s390/cio.h:103): No description found for parameter 'u32'

which contains:

struct tm_scsw {
	u32 :1;

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this:

0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2
0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0
0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0

in his System.map / kallsyms output.

Simple solution is to skip all debugging
symbols (they are marked 'N').

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>

Disable modpost warnings for linkonce sections

My build gives lots of warnings like

WARNING: sound/core/snd.o (.gnu.linkonce.wi.mpspec_def.h.30779716): unexpected section name.
The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.
Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
section definitions for use in .S files.

But for .linkonce. duplicated sections are actually ok and expected.
So just disable the warning for this case.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>