David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:
Here are some miscellaneous very minor cleanups for netfslib for the next
merge window, primarily from Max Kellermann, if you could pull them.
(1) Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ.
(2) Remove NETFS_INVALID_WRITE.
(3) Remove NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH.
(4) Remove NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR.
(5) Reorder structs to eliminate holes.
(6) Remove netfs_io_request::ractl.
(7) Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y.
(8) Remove folio_queue::marks3.
(9) Remove NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS.
(10) Remove NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED.
* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-1-dhowells@redhat.com:
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Bring in the netfs API documentation updates which had been in the
vfs-6.16.misc branch for most of this cycle. So don't needlessly rewrite
the vfs-6.16.misc by dropping it from that branch and moving it to
vfs-6.16.netfs. Simply merge vfs-6.16.misc into vfs-6.16.netfs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:
* Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert. Fix
that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we report it
to userspace which relies on them not having any mode.
* Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op->setattr isn't
implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single user
of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either useless
or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the respective
subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their own private
superblock.
* Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers.
* Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior.
The anonymous inode specific fixes should ideally be backported to all
LTS kernels.
* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-0-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org:
selftests/filesystems: add fourth test for anonymous inodes
selftests/filesystems: add third test for anonymous inodes
selftests/filesystems: add second test for anonymous inodes
selftests/filesystems: add first test for anonymous inodes
anon_inode: raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC
pidfs: use anon_inode_setattr()
anon_inode: explicitly block ->setattr()
pidfs: use anon_inode_getattr()
anon_inode: use a proper mode internally
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-0-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
It isn't possible to execute anonymous inodes because they cannot be
opened in any way after they have been created. This includes execution:
execveat(fd_anon_inode, "", NULL, NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH)
Anonymous inodes have inode->f_op set to no_open_fops which sets
no_open() which returns ENXIO. That means any call to do_dentry_open()
which is the endpoint of the do_open_execat() will fail. There's no
chance to execute an anonymous inode. Unless a given subsystem overrides
it ofc.
However, we should still harden this and raise SB_I_NODEV and
SB_I_NOEXEC on the superblock itself so that no one gets any creative
ideas.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-5-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
It is currently possible to change the mode and owner of the single
anonymous inode in the kernel:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ret, sfd;
sigset_t mask;
struct signalfd_siginfo fdsi;
sigemptyset(&mask);
sigaddset(&mask, SIGINT);
sigaddset(&mask, SIGQUIT);
ret = sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &mask, NULL);
if (ret < 0)
_exit(1);
sfd = signalfd(-1, &mask, 0);
if (sfd < 0)
_exit(2);
ret = fchown(sfd, 5555, 5555);
if (ret < 0)
_exit(3);
ret = fchmod(sfd, 0777);
if (ret < 0)
_exit(3);
_exit(4);
}
This is a bug. It's not really a meaningful one because anonymous inodes
don't really figure into path lookup and they cannot be reopened via
/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr> and can't be used for lookup itself. So they can
only ever serve as direct references.
But it is still completely bogus to allow the mode and ownership or any
of the properties of the anonymous inode to be changed. Block this!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-3-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Update the document to reflect that initramfs didn't replace initrd
following kernel 2.5.x.
The initramfs buffer format now supports many compression types in
addition to gzip, so include them in the grammar section.
c_mtime use is dependent on CONFIG_INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME.
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402033949.852-2-ddiss@suse.de
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull soundwire fix from Vinod Koul:
- add missing config symbol CONFIG_SND_HDA_EXT_CORE required for asoc
driver CONFIG_SND_SOF_SOF_HDA_SDW_BPT
* tag 'soundwire-6.15-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/soundwire:
ASoC: SOF: Intel: Let SND_SOF_SOF_HDA_SDW_BPT select SND_HDA_EXT_CORE
Support up to 8192 processors
Add cpuidle governor debug telemetry, disabled by default
Update default output to exclude cpuidle invocation counts
Bug fixes
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Create "pct_idle" counter group, the sofware notion of residency
so it can now be singled out, independent of other counter groups.
Create "cpuidle" group, the cpuidle invocation counts.
Disable "cpuidle", by default.
Create "swidle" = "cpuidle" + "pct_idle".
Undocument "sysfs", the old name for "swidle", but keep it working
for backwards compatibilty.
Create "hwidle", all the HW idle counters
Modify "idle", enabled by default
"idle" = "hwidle" + "pct_idle" (and now excludes "cpuidle")
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Pull perf event fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a perf events time accounting bug"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting bug at task exit
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a nonsensical Kconfig combination
- Remove an unnecessary rseq-notification
* tag 'sched-urgent-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rseq: Eliminate useless task_work on execve
sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION depend on CONFIG_SMP
... and don't error out so hard on missing module descriptions.
Before commit 6c6c1fc09d ("modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()")
we used to warn about missing module descriptions, but only when
building with extra warnigns (ie 'W=1').
After that commit the warning became an unconditional hard error.
And it turns out not all modules have been converted despite the claims
to the contrary. As reported by Damian Tometzki, the slub KUnit test
didn't have a module description, and apparently nobody ever really
noticed.
The reason nobody noticed seems to be that the slub KUnit tests get
disabled by SLUB_TINY, which also ends up disabling a lot of other code,
both in tests and in slub itself. And so anybody doing full build tests
didn't actually see this failre.
So let's disable SLUB_TINY for build-only tests, since it clearly ends
up limiting build coverage. Also turn the missing module descriptions
error back into a warning, but let's keep it around for non-'W=1'
builds.
Reported-by: Damian Tometzki <damian@riscv-rocks.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/01070196099fd059-e8463438-7b1b-4ec8-816d-173874be9966-000000@eu-central-1.amazonses.com/
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Fixes: 6c6c1fc09d ("modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Probe cpuidle "sysfs" residency and counts separately,
since soon we will make one disabled on, and the
other disabled off.
Clarify that some BIC (build-in-counters) are actually "groups".
since we're about to re-name some of those groups.
no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Do fflush() to discard the buffered data, before each read of the
graphics sysfs knobs.
Fixes: ba99a4fc8c ("tools/power turbostat: Remove unnecessary fflush() call")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Document that on Intel Granite Rapids Systems,
Uncore domains 0-2 are CPU domains, and
uncore domains 3-4 are IO domains.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The CoreThr column displays total thermal throttling events
since boot time.
Change it to report events during the measurement interval.
This is more useful for showing a user the current conditions.
Total events since boot time are still available to the user via
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/*
Document CoreThr on turbostat.8
Fixes: eae97e053f ("turbostat: Support thermal throttle count print")
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
On systems with >= 1024 cpus (in my case 1152), turbostat fails with the error output:
"turbostat: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus.effective: cpu str malformat 0-1151"
A similar error appears with the use of turbostat --cpu when the inputted cpu
range contains a cpu number >= 1024:
# turbostat -c 1100-1151
"--cpu 1100-1151" malformed
...
Both errors are caused by parse_cpu_str() reaching its limit of CPU_SUBSET_MAXCPUS.
It's a good idea to limit the maximum cpu number being parsed, but 1024 is too low.
For a small increase in compute and allocated memory, increasing CPU_SUBSET_MAXCPUS
brings support for parsing cpu numbers >= 1024.
Increase CPU_SUBSET_MAXCPUS to 8192, a common setting for CONFIG_NR_CPUS on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Justin Ernst <justin.ernst@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of final cleanups for the timer subsystem:
- Convert all del_timer[_sync]() instances over to the new
timer_delete[_sync]() API and remove the legacy wrappers.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus some manual fixups as
coccinelle chokes on scoped_guard().
- The final cleanup of the hrtimer_init() to hrtimer_setup()
conversion.
This has been delayed to the end of the merge window, so that all
patches which have been merged through other trees are in mainline
and all new users are catched.
Doing this right before rc1 ensures that new code which is merged post
rc1 is not introducing new instances of the original functionality"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tracing/timers: Rename the hrtimer_init event to hrtimer_setup
hrtimers: Rename debug_init_on_stack() to debug_setup_on_stack()
hrtimers: Rename debug_init() to debug_setup()
hrtimers: Rename __hrtimer_init_sleeper() to __hrtimer_setup_sleeper()
hrtimers: Remove unnecessary NULL check in hrtimer_start_range_ns()
hrtimers: Make callback function pointer private
hrtimers: Merge __hrtimer_init() into __hrtimer_setup()
hrtimers: Switch to use __htimer_setup()
hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init()
treewide: Convert new and leftover hrtimer_init() users
treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()
Pull more irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of updates for the interrupt subsystem:
- A treewide cleanup for the irq_domain code, which makes the naming
consistent and gets rid of the original oddity of naming domains
'host'.
This is a trivial mechanical change and is done late to ensure that
all instances have been catched and new code merged post rc1 wont
reintroduce new instances.
- A trivial consistency fix in the migration code
The recent introduction of irq_force_complete_move() in the core
code, causes a problem for the nostalgia crowd who maintains ia64
out of tree.
The code assumes that hierarchical interrupt domains are enabled
and dereferences irq_data::parent_data unconditionally. That works
in mainline because both architectures which enable that code have
hierarchical domains enabled. Though it breaks the ia64 build,
which enables the functionality, but does not have hierarchical
domains.
While it's not really a problem for mainline today, this
unconditional dereference is inconsistent and trivially fixable by
using the existing helper function irqd_get_parent_data(), which
has the appropriate #ifdeffery in place"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/migration: Use irqd_get_parent_data() in irq_force_complete_move()
irqdomain: Stop using 'host' for domain
irqdomain: Rename irq_get_default_host() to irq_get_default_domain()
irqdomain: Rename irq_set_default_host() to irq_set_default_domain()
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A revert to fix a adjtimex() regression:
The recent change to prevent that time goes backwards for the coarse
time getters due to immediate multiplier adjustments via adjtimex(),
changed the way how the timekeeping core treats that.
That change result in a regression on the adjtimex() side, which is
user space visible:
1) The forwarding of the base time moves the update out of the
original period and establishes a new one. That's changing the
behaviour of the [PF]LL control, which user space expects to be
applied periodically.
2) The clearing of the accumulated NTP error due to #1, changes the
behaviour as well.
An attempt to delay the multiplier/frequency update to the next tick
did not solve the problem as userspace expects that the multiplier or
frequency updates are in effect, when the syscall returns.
There is a different solution for the coarse time problem available,
so revert the offending commit to restore the existing adjtimex()
behaviour"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-04-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids"
Pull sh updates from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
"One important fix and one small configuration update.
The first patch by Artur Rojek fixes an issue with the J2 firmware
loader not being able to find the location of the device tree blob due
to insufficient alignment of the .bss section which rendered J2 boards
unbootable.
The second patch by Johan Korsnes updates the defconfigs on sh to drop
the CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX configuration option which became obsolete
after 8c710f7525 ("net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier").
Summary:
- sh: defconfig: Drop obsolete CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX
- sh: Align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary"
* tag 'sh-for-v6.15-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glaubitz/sh-linux:
sh: defconfig: Drop obsolete CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX
sh: Align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Improve performance in gendwarfksyms
- Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS
- Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um
- Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility
- Support the loong64 Debian architecture
- Add Kbuild bash completion
- Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux
- Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases
- Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error
- Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB
- Add debuginfo support to the RPM package
* tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
...
Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
"Weekly fixes, mostly from the end of last week, this week was very
quiet, maybe you scared everyone away. It's mostly amdgpu, and xe,
with some i915, adp and bridge bits, since I think this is overly
quiet I'd expect rc2 to be a bit more lively.
bridge:
- tda998x: Select CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER
amdgpu:
- Guard against potential division by 0 in fan code
- Zero RPM support for SMU 14.0.2
- Properly handle SI and CIK support being disabled
- PSR fixes
- DML2 fixes
- DP Link training fix
- Vblank fixes
- RAS fixes
- Partitioning fix
- SDMA fix
- SMU 13.0.x fixes
- Rom fetching fix
- MES fixes
- Queue reset fix
xe:
- Fix NULL pointer dereference on error path
- Add missing HW workaround for BMG
- Fix survivability mode not triggering
- Fix build warning when DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION is not set
i915:
- Bounds check for scalers in DSC prefill latency computation
- Fix build by adding a missing include
adp:
- Fix error handling in plane setup"
# -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
* tag 'drm-next-2025-04-05' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (34 commits)
drm/i2c: tda998x: select CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER
drm/amdgpu/gfx12: fix num_mec
drm/amdgpu/gfx11: fix num_mec
drm/amd/pm: Add gpu_metrics_v1_8
drm/amdgpu: Prefer shadow rom when available
drm/amd/pm: Update smu metrics table for smu_v13_0_6
drm/amd/pm: Remove host limit metrics support
Remove unnecessary firmware version check for gc v9_4_2
drm/amdgpu: stop unmapping MQD for kernel queues v3
Revert "drm/amdgpu/sdma_v4_4_2: update VM flush implementation for SDMA"
drm/amdgpu: Parse all deferred errors with UMC aca handle
drm/amdgpu: Update ta ras block
drm/amdgpu: Add NPS2 to DPX compatible mode
drm/amdgpu: Use correct gfx deferred error count
drm/amd/display: Actually do immediate vblank disable
drm/amd/display: prevent hang on link training fail
Revert "drm/amd/display: dml2 soc dscclk use DPM table clk setting"
drm/amd/display: Increase vblank offdelay for PSR panels
drm/amd: Handle being compiled without SI or CIK support better
drm/amd/pm: Add zero RPM enabled OD setting support for SMU14.0.2
...
The rpm-pkg make target currently suffers from a few issues related to
debuginfo:
1. debuginfo for things built into the kernel (vmlinux) is not available
in any RPM produced by make rpm-pkg. This makes using tools like
systemtap against a make rpm-pkg kernel impossible.
2. debug source for the kernel is not available. This means that
commands like 'disas /s' in gdb, which display source intermixed with
assembly, can only print file names/line numbers which then must be
painstakingly resolved to actual source in a separate editor.
3. debuginfo for modules is available, but it remains bundled with the
.ko files that contain module code, in the main kernel RPM. This is a
waste of space for users who do not need to debug the kernel (i.e.
most users).
Address all of these issues by additionally building a debuginfo RPM
when the kernel configuration allows for it, in line with standard
patterns followed by RPM distributors. With these changes:
1. systemtap now works (when these changes are backported to 6.11, since
systemtap lags a bit behind in compatibility), as verified by the
following simple test script:
# stap -e 'probe kernel.function("do_sys_open").call { printf("%s\n", $$parms); }'
dfd=0xffffffffffffff9c filename=0x7fe18800b160 flags=0x88800 mode=0x0
...
2. disas /s works correctly in gdb, with source and disassembly
interspersed:
# gdb vmlinux --batch -ex 'disas /s blk_op_str'
Dump of assembler code for function blk_op_str:
block/blk-core.c:
125 {
0xffffffff814c8740 <+0>: endbr64
127
128 if (op < ARRAY_SIZE(blk_op_name) && blk_op_name[op])
0xffffffff814c8744 <+4>: mov $0xffffffff824a7378,%rax
0xffffffff814c874b <+11>: cmp $0x23,%edi
0xffffffff814c874e <+14>: ja 0xffffffff814c8768 <blk_op_str+40>
0xffffffff814c8750 <+16>: mov %edi,%edi
126 const char *op_str = "UNKNOWN";
0xffffffff814c8752 <+18>: mov $0xffffffff824a7378,%rdx
127
128 if (op < ARRAY_SIZE(blk_op_name) && blk_op_name[op])
0xffffffff814c8759 <+25>: mov -0x7dfa0160(,%rdi,8),%rax
126 const char *op_str = "UNKNOWN";
0xffffffff814c8761 <+33>: test %rax,%rax
0xffffffff814c8764 <+36>: cmove %rdx,%rax
129 op_str = blk_op_name[op];
130
131 return op_str;
132 }
0xffffffff814c8768 <+40>: jmp 0xffffffff81d01360 <__x86_return_thunk>
End of assembler dump.
3. The size of the main kernel package goes down substantially,
especially if many modules are built (quite typical). Here is a
comparison of installed size of the kernel package (configured with
allmodconfig, dwarf4 debuginfo, and module compression turned off)
before and after this patch:
# rpm -qi kernel-6.13* | grep -E '^(Version|Size)'
Version : 6.13.0postpatch+
Size : 1382874089
Version : 6.13.0prepatch+
Size : 17870795887
This is a ~92% size reduction.
Note that a debuginfo package can only be produced if the following
configs are set:
- CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
- CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS=n
- CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT=n
The first of these is obvious - we can't produce debuginfo if the build
does not generate it. The second two requirements can in principle be
removed, but doing so is difficult with the current approach, which uses
a generic rpmbuild script find-debuginfo.sh that processes all packaged
executables. If we want to remove those requirements the best path
forward is likely to add some debuginfo extraction/installation logic to
the modules_install target (controllable by flags). That way, it's
easier to operate on modules before they're compressed, and the logic
can be reused by all packaging targets.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh script requires an existing
$INITFILE (or the $1 argument) as a base file for merging Kconfig
fragments. However, an empty $INITFILE can serve as an initial starting
point, later referenced by the KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG Makefile variable
if -m is not used. This variable can point to any configuration file
containing preset config symbols (the merged output) as stated in
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst. When -m is used $INITFILE will
contain just the merge output requiring the user to run make (i.e.
KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=<$INITFILE> make <allnoconfig/alldefconfig> or make
olddefconfig).
Instead of failing when `$INITFILE` is missing, create an empty file and
use it as the starting point for merges.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
