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  1. Jan 15, 2020
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      initramfs: refactor the initramfs build rules · 65e00e04
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      Currently, usr/gen_initramfs.sh takes care of all the use-cases:
      
       [1] generates a cpio file unless CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE points to
           a single cpio archive
      
       [2] If CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is the path to a cpio archive,
           use it as-is.
      
       [3] Compress the cpio file according to CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_*
           unless it is passed a compressed archive.
      
      To simplify the script, move [2] and [3] to usr/Makefile.
      
      If CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is the path to a cpio archive, there is
      no need to run this shell script.
      
      For the cpio archive compression, you can re-use the rules from
      scripts/Makefile.lib .
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
      65e00e04
  2. Aug 22, 2018
  3. Mar 25, 2018
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a · f49821ee
      Nicholas Piggin authored
      
      Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
      is the usual extension for archive files.
      
      This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:
      
      git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'
      
      The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
      filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:
      
      -libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
      +libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      f49821ee
  4. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  5. Dec 01, 2010
  6. Oct 31, 2010
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      initramfs: Fix initramfs size for 32-bit arches · 96f93593
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored
      
      Commit ffe8018c ("initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation") broke
      32-bit big-endian arches like (on ARAnyM):
      
          VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(3,1)
          Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
          fe80         1059408 nfhd8  (driver?)
            fe81          921600 nfhd8p1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000nfhd8p1
            fe82          137807 nfhd8p2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000nfhd8p2
          0200            3280 fd0  (driver?)
          0201            3280 fd1  (driver?)
          0300         1059408 hda  driver: ide-gd
            0301          921600 hda1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000hda1
            0302          137807 hda2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000hda2
          Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)
      
      As pointed out by Kerstin Jonsson <kerstin.jonsson@ericsson.com>, this
      is due to CONFIG_32BIT not being defined, so the initramfs size field is
      done as a 64-bit quad.  On little-endian (like x86) this doesn matter,
      but on a big-endian machine the 32-bit reads will see the (zero) high
      bits.
      
      Only mips, s390, and score set CONFIG_32BIT for 32-bit builds, so fix it for
      all other 32-bit arches by inverting the logic and testing for CONFIG_64BIT,
      which should be defined on all 64-bit arches.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      [ I think we should just make it "u64" on all architectures and get
        rid of the whole #ifdef CONFIG_xxBIT   - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      96f93593
  7. Sep 29, 2010
    • Hendrik Brueckner's avatar
      initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation · ffe8018c
      Hendrik Brueckner authored
      
      The size of a built-in initramfs is calculated in init/initramfs.c by
      "__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start".  Those symbols are defined in the
      linker script include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:
      
      #define INIT_RAM_FS                                                     \
              . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);                                           \
              VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .;                          \
              *(.init.ramfs)                                                  \
              VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .;
      
      If the initramfs file has an odd number of bytes, the "__initramfs_end"
      symbol points to an odd address, for example, the symbols in the
      System.map might look like:
      
          0000000000572000 T __initramfs_start
          00000000005bcd05 T __initramfs_end	  <-- odd address
      
      At least on s390 this causes a problem:
      
      Certain s390 instructions, especially instructions for loading addresses
      (larl) or branch addresses must be on even addresses.  The compiler loads
      the symbol addresses with the "larl" instruction.  This instruction sets
      the last bit to 0 and, therefore, for odd size files, the calculated size
      is one byte less than it should be:
      
          0000000000540a9c <populate_rootfs>:
            540a9c:     eb cf f0 78 00 24       stmg    %r12,%r15,120(%r15),
            540aa2:     c0 10 00 01 8a af       larl    %r1,572000 <__initramfs_start>
            540aa8:     c0 c0 00 03 e1 2e       larl    %r12,5bcd04 <initramfs_end>
                                                        (Instead of  5bcd05)
            ...
            540abe:     1b c1                   sr      %r12,%r1
      
      To fix the problem, this patch introduces the global variable
      __initramfs_size, which is calculated in the "usr/initramfs_data.S" file.
      The populate_rootfs() function can then use the start marker of the
      .init.ramfs section and the value of __initramfs_size for loading the
      initramfs.  Because the start marker and size is sufficient, the
      __initramfs_end symbol is no longer needed and is removed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: default avatar"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      ffe8018c
    • Hendrik Brueckner's avatar
      initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants · 6ae64e42
      Hendrik Brueckner authored
      
      Remove initramfs_data.{lzo,lzma,gz,bz2}.S variants and use a common
      implementation in initramfs_data.S.  The common implementation expects the
      file name of the initramfs to be defined in INITRAMFS_IMAGE.
      
      Change the Makefile to set the INITRAMFS_IMAGE define symbol according
      to the selected compression method.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: default avatar"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      6ae64e42
  8. Jan 07, 2009
    • Alain Knaff's avatar
      bzip2/lzma: fix built-in initramfs vs CONFIG_RD_GZIP · a26ee60f
      Alain Knaff authored and H Peter Anvin's avatar H Peter Anvin committed
      
      Impact: Resolves build failures in some configurations
      
      Makes it possible to disable CONFIG_RD_GZIP . In that case, the
      built-in initramfs will be compressed by whatever compressor is
      available (bzip2 or lzma) or left uncompressed if none is available.
      
      It also removes a couple of warnings which occur when no ramdisk
      compression at all is chosen.
      
      It also restores the select ZLIB_INFLATE in drivers/block/Kconfig
      which somehow came missing. This is needed to activate compilation of
      the stuff in zlib_deflate.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      a26ee60f
  9. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4
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