[PATCH 1/3] time: move timeconst.h into include/generated

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Sun Apr 05 2015 - 03:33:19 EST


kernel/time/timeconst.h is moved to include/generated/ and generated in
an early build stage by top level Kbuild. This allows using timeconst.h
in an earlier stage of the build.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Thanks to Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> for suggesting this approach and
catching the unconditional rebuild (should be fixed here now properly) as well
as for his review comments on the first attempts.

Some questions:
* Kbuild - is passing in arguments to .bc files via pipe and read();
rather than using multiple files acceptable or is there some reason
for the original multifile solution that Im overlooking ?
* conditional rebuild of timeconst.h with $(call filechk,gentimeconst)
not really clear if this is going to do all rebuilds that could be
necessary and not clear how to verify this. currently only checked by
1) defconfig -> build -> rebuild -> CHK is executed timeconst.h unmodified
2) defconfig -> build -> change HZ -> rebuild -> UPD timeconst.h resulting
in a rebuild of most files.

Patch was compile tested for x86_64_defconfig,multi_v7_defconfig,
ppc64_defconfig, and boot/run
tested on x86_64. Further a test-case with an invalid HZ value to trigger the
error output in kernel/time/timeconst.bc was run.

Patch is against 4.0-rc6 (localversion-next is -next-20150402)

Kbuild | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/time/Makefile | 17 +----------------
kernel/time/time.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/timeconst.bc | 3 ++-
4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Kbuild b/Kbuild
index 96d0629..4e1ed0b 100644
--- a/Kbuild
+++ b/Kbuild
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
-# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h)
-# 3) Check for missing system calls
+# 2) Generate timeconst.h
+# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h)
+# 4) Check for missing system calls

# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
@@ -47,7 +48,26 @@ $(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)

#####
-# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h
+# 2) Generate timeconst.h
+
+timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h
+
+always += $(timeconst-file)
+targets += $(timeconst-file)
+
+quiet_cmd_gentimeconst = GEN $@
+define cmd_gentimeconst
+ (echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< ) > $@
+endef
+define filechk_gentimeconst
+ (echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< )
+endef
+
+$(obj)/$(timeconst-file): kernel/time/timeconst.bc FORCE
+ $(call filechk,gentimeconst)
+
+#####
+# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h
#

offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h
@@ -66,7 +86,7 @@ $(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)

#####
-# 3) Check for missing system calls
+# 4) Check for missing system calls
#

always += missing-syscalls
@@ -79,4 +99,4 @@ missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh $(offsets-file) FORCE
$(call cmd,syscalls)

# Keep these two files during make clean
-no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file)
+no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file) $(timeconst-file)
diff --git a/kernel/time/Makefile b/kernel/time/Makefile
index 01f0312..ffc4cc3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/time/Makefile
@@ -13,19 +13,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TIMER_STATS) += timer_stats.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) += timekeeping_debug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_UDELAY) += test_udelay.o

-$(obj)/time.o: $(obj)/timeconst.h
-
-quiet_cmd_hzfile = HZFILE $@
- cmd_hzfile = echo "hz=$(CONFIG_HZ)" > $@
-
-targets += hz.bc
-$(obj)/hz.bc: $(objtree)/include/config/hz.h FORCE
- $(call if_changed,hzfile)
-
-quiet_cmd_bc = BC $@
- cmd_bc = bc -q $(filter-out FORCE,$^) > $@
-
-targets += timeconst.h
-$(obj)/timeconst.h: $(obj)/hz.bc $(src)/timeconst.bc FORCE
- $(call if_changed,bc)
-
+$(obj)/time.o: $(objtree)/include/config/
diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
index 2c85b77..4fa1d26 100644
--- a/kernel/time/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time/time.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>

-#include "timeconst.h"
+#include <generated/timeconst.h>
#include "timekeeping.h"

/*
diff --git a/kernel/time/timeconst.bc b/kernel/time/timeconst.bc
index 511bdf2..c7388de 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timeconst.bc
+++ b/kernel/time/timeconst.bc
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ define timeconst(hz) {
print "#include <linux/types.h>\n\n"

print "#if HZ != ", hz, "\n"
- print "#error \qkernel/timeconst.h has the wrong HZ value!\q\n"
+ print "#error \qinclude/generated/timeconst.h has the wrong HZ value!\q\n"
print "#endif\n\n"

if (hz < 2) {
@@ -105,4 +105,5 @@ define timeconst(hz) {
halt
}

+hz = read();
timeconst(hz)
--
1.7.10.4

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