In Ingo's words [1]: "[...] what should be done instead is to write a script that refreshes all the arch-support.txt files in-place. [...] It's OK for the script to have various quirks for weirdly implemented features and exceptions: i.e. basically whenever it gets a feature wrong, we can just tweak the script with quirks to make it all work out of box. [...] But in the end there should only be a single new script: Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh ... which operates on the arch-support.txt files and refreshes them in place, and which, after all the refreshes have been committed, should produce an empty 'git diff' result." "[...] New features can then be added by basically just creating a header-only arch-support.txt file, such as: triton:~/tip/Documentation/features> cat foo/bar/arch-support.txt # # Feature name: shiny new fubar kernel feature # Kconfig: ARCH_USE_FUBAR # description: arch supports the fubar feature # And running Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh would auto-generate the arch support matrix. [...] This way we soft- decouple the refreshing of the entries from the introduction of the features, while still making it all easy to keep sync and to extend." This RFC presents a first attempt to implement such a feature/script, and applies it script on top of Arnd's: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git arch-removal Patch 1/3 provides the "features-refresh.sh" script. Patch 2/3 removes the "BPF-JIT" feature file and it creates header-only files for "cBPF-JIT" and "eBPF-JIT". Patch 3/3 presents the results of running the script; this run also printed to standard output the following warnings: WARNING: '__HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP' is not a valid Kconfig WARNING: 'Optimized asm/rwsem.h' is not a valid Kconfig WARNING: '!ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET' is not a valid Kconfig WARNING: '__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL' is not a valid Kconfig (I'm sending these patches with empty commit messagges, for early feedback: I'll fill in these messages in subsequent versions if this makes sense...) Cheers, Andrea Andrea Parri (3): Documentation/features: Add script that refreshes the arch support status files in place Documentation/features/core: Add arch support status files for 'cBPF-JIT' and 'eBPF-JIT' Documentation/features: Refresh and auto-generate the arch support status files in place .../features/core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt | 31 ------------ .../features/core/cBPF-JIT/arch-support.txt | 32 +++++++++++++ .../features/core/eBPF-JIT/arch-support.txt | 32 +++++++++++++ .../core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/core/tracehook/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt | 1 + Documentation/features/debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt | 5 +- .../debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt | 9 ++-- .../locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt | 7 +-- .../locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt | 5 +- .../features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt | 5 +- Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt | 5 +- .../time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/time/clockevents/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt | 1 + Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt | 1 + Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt | 1 + .../features/vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt | 3 +- .../features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt | 1 + 46 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/cBPF-JIT/arch-support.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/eBPF-JIT/arch-support.txt create mode 100755 Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh -- 2.7.4