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| author | Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com> | 2026-09-04 15:07:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> | 2026-09-13 18:15:43 -0700 |
| commit | 7e61560628d17ea6b1d8ee370f6d42694cff8758 (patch) | |
| tree | e6080164b2f4c4c419894bdb3ce4d956ca9a98c5 /Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | |
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objtool: Validate disassembler headers in libopcodes probegrafted
commit 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries")
tested for libopcodes availability by linking a test snippet with a forward
declaration of disassemble_init_for_target().
However, testing symbol linkage with an extern declaration only verifies
the presence of the library (.so/.a) and bypasses checking for development
headers (binutils-dev). On systems where libopcodes is present without
development headers installed, the probe succeeds, enabling BUILD_DISAS.
Subsequent compilation of objtool then fails:
fatal error: 'bfd.h' file not found
113 | #include <bfd.h>
Additionally, the probe invokes $(HOSTCC) without $(HOSTCFLAGS), ignoring
any sysroot or include flags specified for the host compiler.
Fix this by including <bfd.h> and <dis-asm.h> directly in the test snippet,
passing $(HOSTCFLAGS) so host compiler options are respected, and defining
PACKAGE="objtool" to satisfy the configuration check in <bfd.h>.
Fixes: 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries")
Fixes: 436326bc525d ("objtool: fix build failure due to missing libopcodes check")
Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-Next
Signed-off-by: Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904150710.2997558-1-umendez@google.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cd28dfe91 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +================================================= +The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide +================================================= + +The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been +added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or +organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent +document! With luck things will improve quickly over time. + +General guides to kernel administration +--------------------------------------- + +This initial section contains overall information, including the README +file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters, +etc. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + README + devices + + features + +A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs +virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + sysfs-rules + sysctl/index + cputopology + abi + +Security-related documentation: + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + hw-vuln/index + LSM/index + perf-security + +Booting the kernel +------------------ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + bootconfig + kernel-parameters + efi-stub + initrd + + +Tracking down and identifying problems +-------------------------------------- + +Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down +problems and bugs in particular. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + reporting-issues + reporting-regressions + quickly-build-trimmed-linux + verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions + bug-hunting + bug-bisect + tainted-kernels + ramoops + dynamic-debug-howto + init + kdump/index + perf/index + pstore-blk + clearing-warn-once + kernel-per-CPU-kthreads + lockup-watchdogs + RAS/index + sysrq + + +Core-kernel subsystems +---------------------- + +These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are +likely to be of interest on almost any system. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + cgroup-v2 + cgroup-v1/index + cpu-isolation + cpu-load + mm/index + module-signing + namespaces/index + numastat + pm/index + syscall-user-dispatch + +Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of these +documents are ... old ... + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + binfmt-misc + java + mono + + +Block-layer and filesystem administration +----------------------------------------- + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + bcache + binderfs + blockdev/index + cifs/index + device-mapper/index + ext4 + filesystem-monitoring + nfs/index + iostats + jfs + md + ufs + xfs + +Device-specific guides +---------------------- + +How to configure your hardware within your Linux system. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + acpi/index + aoe/index + auxdisplay/index + braille-console + btmrvl + dell_rbu + edid + gpio/index + hw_random + laptops/index + lcd-panel-cgram + media/index + nvme-multipath + parport + pnp + rapidio + rtc + serial-console + svga + thermal/index + thunderbolt + vga-softcursor + video-output + +Workload analysis +----------------- + +This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to +application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the +Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting +analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel +subsystems expectations will be found here. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + workload-tracing + +Everything else +--------------- + +A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + ldm + unicode |
