Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig

 - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig

 - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig

 - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh

 - suppress distracting log from syncconfig

 - remove obsolete "rpm" target

 - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely

 - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

 - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig

 - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS

 - misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl
  kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig
  initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale <linux/export.h> include
  export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR()
  Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci
  kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale
  kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg"
  kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
  kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig
  kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build
  kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern
  scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results
  kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report
  kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
  kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency
  kconfig: add build-only configurator targets
  scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile

Documentation/early-userspace/README

@@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ early userspace image can be built by an unprivileged user.
 
 As a technical note, when directories and files are specified, the
 entire CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is passed to
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
 can really be interpreted as any legal argument to
 gen_initramfs_list.sh.  If a directory is specified as an argument then
 the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and
 usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output.  If a directory is
-specified as an argument to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
+specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
 contents of the file are simply copied to the output.  All of the output
 directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are
 processed by usr/gen_init_cpio.
 
-See also 'scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
+See also 'usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
 
 Where's this all leading?
 =========================

Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.)
 The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools.  If you specify a
 directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure
 creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
 using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created
 from usr/gen_init_cpio.c).  The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is
 entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ make KBUILD_KCONFIG=Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-02 allnoconfig
 Practical solutions to kconfig recursive issue
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Developers who run into the recursive Kconfig issue have three options
+Developers who run into the recursive Kconfig issue have two options
 at their disposal. We document them below and also provide a list of
 historical issues resolved through these different solutions.
 
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ historical issues resolved through these different solutions.
   b) Match dependency semantics:
 	b1) Swap all "select FOO" to "depends on FOO" or,
 	b2) Swap all "depends on FOO" to "select FOO"
-  c) Consider the use of "imply" instead of "select"
 
 The resolution to a) can be tested with the sample Kconfig file
 Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-01 through the removal

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt

@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ Both possibilities are described in the following.
 
 	Example:
 		#scripts/kconfig/Makefile
-		HOSTLOADLIBES_qconf := -L$(QTDIR)/lib
+		HOSTLDLIBS_qconf := -L$(QTDIR)/lib
 
 	When linking qconf, it will be passed the extra option
 	"-L$(QTDIR)/lib".

Makefile

@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL :=
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE  := -DMODULE
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE  := -DMODULE
 KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE := -T $(srctree)/scripts/module-common.lds
-LDFLAGS :=
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS :=
 GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=
 
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS
 export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
 export HOSTCXX KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
 
-export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS
+export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
 export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
 export CFLAGS_KASAN CFLAGS_KASAN_NOSANITIZE CFLAGS_UBSAN
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS AFLAGS_KERNEL AFLAGS_MODULE
@@ -790,8 +790,8 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-inline-functions-called-once)
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
-KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL	+= $(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL	+= $(call cc-option,-fdata-sections,)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections
 endif
 
 # arch Makefile may override CC so keep this after arch Makefile is included
@@ -857,10 +857,6 @@ LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID := $(call ld-option, --build-id)
 KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
 
-ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= $(call ld-option, --gc-sections,)
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS),y)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= $(call ld-option, -X,)
 endif
@@ -1024,7 +1020,7 @@ ARCH_POSTLINK := $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.postlink)
 
 # Final link of vmlinux with optional arch pass after final link
 cmd_link-vmlinux =                                                 \
-	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux) ;    \
+	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(LD) $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux) ;    \
 	$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true)
 
 vmlinux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh autoksyms_recursive $(vmlinux-deps) FORCE
@@ -1354,16 +1350,12 @@ distclean: mrproper
 
 # Packaging of the kernel to various formats
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# rpm target kept for backward compatibility
 package-dir	:= scripts/package
 
 %src-pkg: FORCE
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(package-dir) $@
 %pkg: include/config/kernel.release FORCE
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(package-dir) $@
-rpm: rpm-pkg
-	@echo "  WARNING: \"rpm\" target will be removed after Linux 4.18"
-	@echo "           Please use \"rpm-pkg\" instead."
 
 
 # Brief documentation of the typical targets used

arch/arc/Makefile

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE	+= -mlong-calls -mno-millicode
 # Finally dump eveything into kernel build system
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(cflags-y)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
-LDFLAGS		+= $(ldflags-y)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= $(ldflags-y)
 
 head-y		:= arch/arc/kernel/head.o
 

arch/arm/Makefile

@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),y)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -mbig-endian
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__ARMEB__
 AS		+= -EB
-LDFLAGS		+= -EB
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EB
 else
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -mlittle-endian
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__ARMEL__
 AS		+= -EL
-LDFLAGS		+= -EL
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EL
 endif
 
 #

arch/arm64/Makefile

@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__AARCH64EB__
 AS		+= -EB
 # Prefer the baremetal ELF build target, but not all toolchains include
 # it so fall back to the standard linux version if needed.
-LDFLAGS		+= -EB $(call ld-option, -maarch64elfb, -maarch64linuxb)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EB $(call ld-option, -maarch64elfb, -maarch64linuxb)
 UTS_MACHINE	:= aarch64_be
 else
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -mlittle-endian
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__AARCH64EL__
 AS		+= -EL
 # Same as above, prefer ELF but fall back to linux target if needed.
-LDFLAGS		+= -EL $(call ld-option, -maarch64elf, -maarch64linux)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EL $(call ld-option, -maarch64elf, -maarch64linux)
 UTS_MACHINE	:= aarch64
 endif
 

arch/c6x/Makefile

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += -mbig-endian
 KBUILD_AFLAGS   += -mbig-endian
 LINKFLAGS       += -mbig-endian
-KBUILD_LDFLAGS  += -mbig-endian
-LDFLAGS += -EB
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS  += -mbig-endian -EB
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D_BIG_ENDIAN
 endif
 

arch/h8300/Makefile

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mint32 -fno-builtin
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D__linux__
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DUTS_SYSNAME=\"uClinux\"
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(aflags-y)
-LDFLAGS += $(ldflags-y)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(ldflags-y)
 
 CHECKFLAGS += -msize-long
 

arch/hexagon/Makefile

@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ ldflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mv${CONFIG_HEXAGON_ARCH_VERSION})
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(aflags-y)
-
-#  no KBUILD_LDFLAGS?
-LDFLAGS += $(ldflags-y)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += $(ldflags-y)
 
 # Thread-info register will be r19.  This value is not configureable;
 # it is hard-coded in several files.

arch/m68k/Makefile

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D__uClinux__
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += -D__uClinux__
 endif
 
-LDFLAGS := -m m68kelf
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS := -m m68kelf
 KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += -T $(srctree)/arch/m68k/kernel/module.lds
 
 ifdef CONFIG_SUN3

arch/microblaze/Makefile

@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ CPUFLAGS-$(CONFIG_XILINX_MICROBLAZE0_USE_PCMP_INSTR) += -mxl-pattern-compare
 ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mbig-endian
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += -mbig-endian
-LDFLAGS += -EB
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -EB
 else
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mlittle-endian
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += -mlittle-endian
-LDFLAGS += -EL
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -EL
 endif
 
 CPUFLAGS-1 += $(call cc-option,-mcpu=v$(CPU_VER))

arch/mips/Makefile

@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ endif
 # instead of .eh_frame so we don't discard them.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
-LDFLAGS			+= -m $(ld-emul)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS		+= -m $(ld-emul)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
 CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -x c /dev/null | \

arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ UIMAGE_LOADADDR = $(VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS)
 vmlinuzobjs-y += $(obj)/piggy.o
 
 quiet_cmd_zld = LD      $@
-      cmd_zld = $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -Ttext $(VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS) -T $< $(vmlinuzobjs-y) -o $@
+      cmd_zld = $(LD) $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS) -Ttext $(VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS) -T $< $(vmlinuzobjs-y) -o $@
 quiet_cmd_strip = STRIP	  $@
       cmd_strip = $(STRIP) -s $@
 vmlinuz: $(src)/ld.script $(vmlinuzobjs-y) $(obj)/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr

arch/mips/lasat/image/Makefile

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $(obj)/rom.bin: $(obj)/rom
 
 # Rule to make the bootloader
 $(obj)/rom: $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(OBJECTS))
-	$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDSCRIPT) -o $@ $^
+	$(LD) $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS) $(LDSCRIPT) -o $@ $^
 
 $(obj)/%.o: $(obj)/%.gz
 	$(LD) -r -o $@ -b binary $<

arch/nds32/Makefile

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ endif
 ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -EL)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -EL)
-LDFLAGS         += $(call cc-option, -EL)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS  += $(call cc-option, -EL)
 CHECKFLAGS      += -D__NDS32_EL__
 else
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -EB)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -EB)
-LDFLAGS         += $(call cc-option, -EB)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS  += $(call cc-option, -EB)
 CHECKFLAGS      += -D__NDS32_EB__
 endif
 

arch/powerpc/Makefile

@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -mlittle-endian
-LDFLAGS		+= -EL
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EL
 LDEMULATION	:= lppc
 GNUTARGET	:= powerpcle
 MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mno-multiple
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-save-toc-indirect)
 else
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
-LDFLAGS		+= -EB
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -EB
 LDEMULATION	:= ppc
 GNUTARGET	:= powerpc
 MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mmultiple
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mlittle-endian
 ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -m$(BITS)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -m$(BITS) -Wl,-a$(BITS)
-LDFLAGS		+= -m elf$(BITS)$(LDEMULATION)
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= -m elf$(BITS)$(LDEMULATION)
 KBUILD_ARFLAGS	+= --target=elf$(BITS)-$(GNUTARGET)
 endif
 

arch/riscv/Makefile

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_RV64I),y)
 	KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-ifversion, -ge, 0500, -DCONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128)
 
 	KBUILD_MARCH = rv64im
-	LDFLAGS += -melf64lriscv
+	KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -melf64lriscv
 else
 	BITS := 32
 	UTS_MACHINE := riscv32
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ else
 	KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mabi=ilp32
 	KBUILD_AFLAGS += -mabi=ilp32
 	KBUILD_MARCH = rv32im
-	LDFLAGS += -melf32lriscv
+	KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -melf32lriscv
 endif
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wall

arch/s390/Makefile

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 
 LD_BFD		:= elf64-s390
-LDFLAGS		:= -m elf64_s390
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS	:= -m elf64_s390
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += -fPIC
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -fPIC
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -m64