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authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>2016-06-24 23:42:23 +0100
committerGerrit - the friendly Code Review server <code-review@localhost>2020-05-15 02:49:20 -0700
commit370dc6b95f7041c27353f7847be5a0899aefa6f2 (patch)
treecb060387bef1b50a8ff90ba362ba2ef729a9d7e1 /Documentation
parentb108bfeec18bc90b34f2fea1edfa89180ca09a9b (diff)
kbuild, x86: Track generated headers with generated-y
Track generated header files which aren't already in genhdr-y, alongside generic-y wrappers in the */include/generated/[uapi/]asm/ directories. Currently only x86 generates extra headers in these directories, for the purposes of enumerating system calls for different ABIs, and xen hypercalls. This will allow the asm-generic wrapper handling code to remove stale wrappers when files are removed from generic-y, without also removing these headers which are generated separately. Change-Id: I67d31c0f32a9182be25a1a6c56512b51e85da9b2 Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466808144-23209-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Git-commit: 54b880caf15034644b564e378abf67b7f9eaf4dc Git-repo: https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.14/ [schikk@codeaurora.org: resolve trivial merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Swetha Chikkaboraiah <schikk@codeaurora.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 2ab3294ed8d1..eec685e268b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
--- 7.1 header-y
--- 7.2 genhdr-y
--- 7.3 generic-y
+ --- 7.4 generated-y
=== 8 Kbuild Variables
=== 9 Makefile language
@@ -1304,6 +1305,19 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
Example: termios.h
#include <asm-generic/termios.h>
+ --- 7.4 generated-y
+
+ If an architecture generates other header files alongside generic-y
+ wrappers, and not included in genhdr-y, then generated-y specifies
+ them.
+
+ This prevents them being treated as stale asm-generic wrappers and
+ removed.
+
+ Example:
+ #arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild
+ generated-y += syscalls_32.h
+
=== 8 Kbuild Variables
The top Makefile exports the following variables: