kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/scripts/Makefile.asm-headers, branch master

kbuild: don't delete in-flight filechk temporaries in asm-headers

2026-09-04T18:14:55+00:00

Commit 2d69b891e646 ("kbuild: Support generated asm-headers in subdirectories") switched the stale-wrapper sweep in scripts/Makefile.asm-headers from $(wildcard $(obj)/*.h) to a find(1) invocation, so that generated headers in subdirectories are considered. The two do not match the same set of files. Make's $(wildcard) uses glob semantics, where a leading '.' has to be matched explicitly, whereas find's -name uses fnmatch() without FNM_PERIOD, so '*.h' matches dotfiles as well. filechk writes its output to $(dir $@).tmp_$(notdir $@) before renaming it into place, so such a scratch file, if it happens to exist in $(obj) when the sub-make is parsed, is now picked up in old-headers. It appears in neither generic-y, generated-y nor syscall-y, is therefore classified as unwanted, and cmd_remove deletes it. On x86 this races with archprepare, which lists both asm-generic and arch/x86/include/generated/asm/cpufeaturemasks.h as prerequisites. Under -j they run concurrently against the same directory, and the build fails intermittently: mv: cannot stat 'arch/x86/include/generated/asm/.tmp_cpufeaturemasks.h': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:269: arch/x86/include/generated/asm/cpufeaturemasks.h] Error 1 The same commit also converted the generic wrapper rule to filechk, so those wrappers now create .tmp_*.h in $(obj) too and can race among themselves. Restore the previous behaviour by excluding dotfiles from the sweep. Subdirectories, which is what the find(1) conversion was for, keep being descended into. While at it, quote the -name argument: it is currently expanded by the shell against the build directory before find sees it. Fixes: 2d69b891e646 ("kbuild: Support generated asm-headers in subdirectories") Signed-off-by: Vlad Poenaru Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902161347.4163577-1-vlad.wing@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier

kbuild: Support generated asm-headers in subdirectories

2026-08-10T14:25:21+00:00

Extend the asm-header stub generation to also handle subdirectories. An upcoming vdso/ header refactoring requires this. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-vdso-arch-clockmodes-v4-1-ddbe447be860@linutronix.de

kbuild: fix rebuild of generic syscall headers

2024-07-18T17:01:55+00:00

Commit fbb5c0606fa4 ("kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers") started to generate syscall headers for architectures using generic syscalls. However, these headers are always rebuilt using GNU Make 4.4.1 or newer. When using GNU Make 4.4 or older, these headers are not rebuilt when the command to generate them is changed, despite the use of the if_changed macro. scripts/Makefile.asm-headers now uses FORCE, but it is not marked as .PHONY. To handle the command line change correctly, .*.cmd files must be included. Fixes: fbb5c0606fa4 ("kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wibB7SvXnUftBgAt+4-3vEKRpvEgBeDEH=i=j2GvDitoA@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers

2024-07-10T12:23:38+00:00

There are 11 copies of arch/*/kernel/syscalls/Makefile that all implement the same basic logic in a somewhat awkward way. I tried out various ways of unifying the existing copies and ended up with something that hooks into the logic for generating the redirections to asm-generic headers. This gives a nicer syntax of being able to list the generated files in $(syscall-y) inside of arch/*/include/asm/Kbuild instead of both $(generated-y) in that place and also in another Makefile. The configuration for which syscall.tbl file to use and which ABIs to enable is now done in arch/*/kernel/Makefile.syscalls. I have done patches for all architectures and made sure that the new generic rules implement a superset of all the architecture specific corner cases. ince the header file is not specific to asm-generic/*.h redirects now, I ended up renaming the file to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann