Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds

 - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz

 - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig

 - Fix misuse of extra-y

 - Support DWARF v5 debug info

 - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x
   exceeded the limit

 - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches

 - Minor cleanups of genksyms

 - Minor cleanups of Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits)
  initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m'
  kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory
  kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree
  kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig
  kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config'
  kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option
  kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue()
  kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf()
  kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value()
  Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string
  Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT
  kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig
  kbuild: remove ld-version macro
  scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh
  scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh
  arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables
  arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work
  gen_compile_commands: prune some directories
  kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version
  ...

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
index f5530c91d655..780e5618ec0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ $(obj)/processed-schema.json: $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES) check_dtschema_version FORCE
 
 endif
 
-extra-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += processed-schema-examples.json
-extra-$(CHECK_DTBS) += processed-schema.json
-extra-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dts, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES))
-extra-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dt.yaml, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES))
+always-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += processed-schema-examples.json
+always-$(CHECK_DTBS)       += processed-schema.json
+always-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dts, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES))
+always-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dt.yaml, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES))
 
 # Hack: avoid 'Argument list too long' error for 'make clean'. Remove most of
 # build artifacts here before they are processed by scripts/Makefile.clean
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index de669c2f1fcd..db3af0b45baf 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
 	   --- 3.1 Goal definitions
 	   --- 3.2 Built-in object goals - obj-y
 	   --- 3.3 Loadable module goals - obj-m
-	   --- 3.4 Objects which export symbols
+	   --- 3.4 <deleted>
 	   --- 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
 	   --- 3.6 Descending down in directories
 	   --- 3.7 Non-builtin vmlinux targets - extra-y
@@ -247,12 +247,6 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	kbuild will build an ext2.o file for you out of the individual
 	parts and then link this into built-in.a, as you would expect.
 
-3.4 Objects which export symbols
---------------------------------
-
-	No special notation is required in the makefiles for
-	modules exporting symbols.
-
 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
 ------------------------------