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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-03 10:23:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-03 10:23:32 -0700
commitf3dfe925f9548a4337883926db542ccf4ca55fe1 (patch)
treefe3356bdbd5b692a05f44c8946268cb1ac14947b /Documentation/kbuild
parent890f242084c9eac18ef87031d95e0bdbaac01ed4 (diff)
parent69d517e6e21099f81efbd39e47874649ae575804 (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time around, but a few significant changes even so: - A complete rewriting of the top-level index.rst file, which mostly reflects itself in a redone top page in the HTML-rendered docs. The hope is that the new organization will be a friendlier starting point for both users and developers. - Some math-rendering improvements. - A coding-style.rst update on the use of BUG() and WARN() - A big maintainer-PHP guide update. - Some code-of-conduct updates - More Chinese translation work Plus the usual pile of typo fixes, corrections, and updates" * tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (66 commits) checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules ("do not crash the kernel") Documentation: devres: add missing IO helper Documentation: devres: update IRQ helper Documentation/mm: modify page_referenced to folio_referenced Documentation/CoC: Reflect current CoC interpretation and practices docs/doc-guide: Add documentation on SPHINX_IMGMATH docs: process/5.Posting.rst: clarify use of Reported-by: tag docs, kprobes: Fix the wrong location of Kprobes docs: add a man-pages link to the front page docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api docs: remove some index.rst cruft docs: reconfigure the HTML left column docs: Rewrite the front page docs: promote the title of process/index.rst Documentation: devres: add missing SPI helper Documentation: devres: add missing PINCTRL helpers docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix a typo of hugepage size docs/zh_CN: Add new translation of admin-guide/bootconfig.rst ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
index 0ba76719f1b9..c578c6ba3eb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ e.g., on Ubuntu for gcc-10::
Or on Fedora::
- dnf install gcc-plugin-devel
+ dnf install gcc-plugin-devel libmpc-devel
+
+Or on Fedora when using cross-compilers that include plugins::
+
+ dnf install libmpc-devel
Enable the GCC plugin infrastructure and some plugin(s) you want to use
in the kernel config::
@@ -99,6 +103,19 @@ in the kernel config::
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y
...
+Run gcc (native or cross-compiler) to ensure plugin headers are detected::
+
+ gcc -print-file-name=plugin
+ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- ${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc -print-file-name=plugin
+
+The word "plugin" means they are not detected::
+
+ plugin
+
+A full path means they are detected::
+
+ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/12/plugin
+
To compile the minimum tool set including the plugin(s)::
make scripts