kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tools/bootconfig/Makefile, branch master

bootconfig: clean build-time tools/bootconfig from make clean

2026-07-02T12:15:45+00:00

The previous patch builds tools/bootconfig during 'make prepare' to render the embedded bootconfig cmdline, but nothing removes it on 'make clean', leaving the compiled tool and its objects behind. Wire a bootconfig_clean hook into the top-level clean target so the compiled tool and its objects are removed by make clean, matching the prepare-wired tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids. The hook runs tools/bootconfig's Makefile via $(MAKE), which the kernel build invokes with -rR (MAKEFLAGS += -rR). -rR drops the built-in $(RM) variable, so the existing "$(RM) -f ..." clean recipe would expand to a bare "-f ..." and fail. Spell the recipe with a literal "rm -f" so it keeps working both standalone and when invoked from Kbuild. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260626-bootconfig_using_tools-v7-4-24ab72139c29@debian.org/ Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

bootconfig: render embedded bootconfig as a kernel cmdline at build time

2026-07-02T12:15:45+00:00

Add the build-time pipeline that renders the "kernel" subtree of CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE into a flat cmdline string and stashes it in .init.rodata as embedded_kernel_cmdline[]. A follow-up patch adds the runtime helper that prepends this string to boot_command_line during early architecture setup so parse_early_param() sees the values. The build wires up: tools/bootconfig -C kernel - userspace tool already shared with lib/bootconfig.c, used here in -C mode to render a bootconfig file to a cmdline lib/embedded-cmdline.S - .incbin's the rendered text plus a NUL (listed under the EXTRA BOOT CONFIG MAINTAINERS entry) lib/Makefile rule - runs tools/bootconfig at build time Makefile prepare dep - ensures tools/bootconfig is built first, same pattern as tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids Drop the test target from tools/bootconfig/Makefile's default 'all' recipe so that hooking the binary into the kernel build does not run test-bootconfig.sh on every prepare. The tests stay available as 'make -C tools/bootconfig test', matching the convention of tools/objtool and tools/bpf/resolve_btfids whose 'all' targets only build the binary. Require BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE to be non-empty before the new option can be enabled, otherwise tools/bootconfig -C runs against an empty file and prints a parse error on every kernel build. The feature gates on CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG, a silent symbol arches select once they've wired the prepend call into setup_arch(). No arch selects it in this patch, so the user-visible CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTCONFIG is not yet enableable; when an arch later opts in, the runtime behavior is added by the follow-up patches. tools/bootconfig also installs on target systems, so its own Makefile keeps $(CC) and stays cross-buildable as a standalone tool. The kernel build, which runs the tool on the build host during prepare, instead forces CC=$(HOSTCC) from a dedicated tools/bootconfig rule and clears CROSS_COMPILE= in the sub-make. Without that clear, an LLVM=1 cross build would inherit CROSS_COMPILE and tools/scripts/Makefile.include would inject --target=/--sysroot= flags into the host clang invocation, producing a target binary that fails to exec ("Exec format error"). embedded-cmdline.S places the rendered string in its own .init.rodata subsection (.init.rodata.embed_cmdline) with the "a" (allocatable, read-only) flag and %progbits. lib/bootconfig-data.S already places the embedded bootconfig blob in .init.rodata with the "aw" flag (xbc_init() rewrites separators in place, so that data must be writable). Using a distinct subsection name avoids the ld.lld section- type mismatch that would otherwise arise from mixing "a" and "aw" under the same name; the linker's "*(.init.rodata .init.rodata.*)" glob still folds both into the init image and frees them after boot. A follow-up patch wires the build-time tools/bootconfig into the top-level clean target. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260626-bootconfig_using_tools-v7-3-24ab72139c29@debian.org/ Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tools/bootconfig: specify LDFLAGS as an argument to CC

2025-05-16T02:22:54+00:00

Explicitly specify LDFLAGS as an argument to CC so that this can be overridden by the user. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328183858.1417835-3-bmasney@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Brian Masney Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tools/bootconfig: allow overriding CFLAGS assignment

2025-05-16T02:22:40+00:00

Allow overriding the CFLAGS assignment so that the user can pass in an outside value. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328183858.1417835-2-bmasney@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Brian Masney Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

bootconfig: Cleanup dummy headers in tools/bootconfig

2021-10-11T02:16:02+00:00

Cleanup dummy headers in tools/bootconfig/include except for tools/bootconfig/include/linux/bootconfig.h. For this change, I use __KERNEL__ macro to split kernel header #include and introduce xbc_alloc_mem() and xbc_free_mem(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187299574.2366983.18371329724128746091.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tools/bootconfig: Run test script when build all

2021-10-11T00:44:05+00:00

Run the bootconfig test script when build all target so that user can notice any issue when build it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163187295173.2366983.18295281097397499118.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

bootconfig: Support O= option

2020-03-03T22:38:42+00:00

Support O= option to build bootconfig tool in the other directory. As same as other tools, if you specify O=, bootconfig command is build under . Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158323468033.10560.14661631369326294355.stgit@devnote2 Reported-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig test script

2020-01-13T18:19:39+00:00

Add a bootconfig test script to ensure the tool and boot config parser are working correctly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867224728.17873.18114241801246589416.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig command

2020-01-13T18:19:39+00:00

Add "bootconfig" command which operates the bootconfig config-data on initrd image. User can add/delete/verify the boot config on initrd image using this command. e.g. Add a boot config to initrd image # bootconfig -a myboot.conf /boot/initrd.img Remove it. # bootconfig -d /boot/initrd.img Or verify (and show) it. # bootconfig /boot/initrd.img Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867223582.17873.14342161849213219982.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu [ Removed extra blank line at end of bootconfig.c ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)