Linux kernel
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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.
Masahiro Yamada
authored
"xargs echo" is not a safe way to remove line breaks because the input may exceed the command line limit and xargs may break it up into multiple invocations of echo. This should never happen because scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh expects all undefined symbols are placed in the second line of .mod files. One possible way is to replace "xargs echo" with "sed ':x;N;$!bx;s/\n/ /g'" or something, but I rewrote the code by using awk because it is more readable. This issue was reported by Sami Tolvanen; in his Clang LTO patch set, $(multi-used-m) is no longer an ELF object, but a thin archive that contains LLVM bitcode files. llvm-nm prints out symbols for each archive member separately, which results a lot of dupications, in some places, beyond the system-defined limit. This problem must be fixed irrespective of LTO, and we must ensure zero possibility of having this issue. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/1/1658 Reported-by:Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
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