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arm64 descends into each vdso directory twice; first in vdso_prepare, second during the ordinary build process. PPC mimicked it and uncovered a problem [1]. In the first descend, Kbuild directly visits the vdso directories, therefore it does not inherit subdir-ccflags-y from upper directories. This means the command line parameters may differ between the two. If it happens, the offset values in the generated headers might be different from real offsets of vdso.so in the kernel. This potential danger should be avoided. The vdso directories are built in the vdso_prepare stage, so the second descend is unneeded. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CAK7LNARAkJ3_-4gX0VA2UkapbOftuzfSTVMBbgbw=HD8n7N+7w@mail.gmail.com/T/#ma10dcb961fda13f36d42d58fa6cb2da988b7e73a Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201218024540.1102650-1-masahiroy@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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README
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.