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Masahiro Yamada ce697ccee1 kbuild: remove head-y syntax
Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux.
Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry
point.

A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script.
Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section,
which is placed before the normal ".text" section.

I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system
perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code
placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner.

I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is
a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00
arch kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00
block block-6.0-2022-09-22 2022-09-24 08:22:53 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
Documentation kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00
drivers Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros 2022-09-29 04:40:16 +09:00
fs Ext4 regression and bug fixes: 2022-09-25 09:03:31 -07:00
include linux/export: use inline assembler to populate symbol CRCs 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
init kbuild: generate include/generated/compile.h in top Makefile 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
io_uring io_uring-6.0-2022-09-23 2022-09-24 08:27:08 -07:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
lib Makefile.debug: re-enable debug info for .S files 2022-09-24 11:19:19 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm slab fixes for 6.0-rc7 2022-09-22 14:37:58 -07:00
net Including fixes from wifi, netfilter and can. 2022-09-22 10:58:13 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.20 / 6.0 2022-08-05 09:41:12 -07:00
scripts kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00
security Landlock fix for v6.0-rc4 2022-09-02 15:24:08 -07:00
sound Revert "ALSA: usb-audio: Split endpoint setups for hw_params and prepare" 2022-09-20 13:40:18 +02:00
tools dax-and-nvdimm-fixes-v6.0-final 2022-09-25 08:53:52 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Drop unnecessary initialization of "ops" in kvm_ioctl_create_device() 2022-08-19 04:05:43 -04:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Devicetree fixes for v6.0, take 2: 2022-09-14 10:22:39 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild 2022-09-29 04:41:31 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS I2C driver bugfixes for mlxbf and imx, a few documentation fixes after 2022-09-25 08:44:46 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02 18:06:03 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.