Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig

 - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script

 - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

 - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
   default

 - Fix warnings in RPM package builds

 - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
   base DTB and overlays

 - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig

 - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig

 - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
   package builds

 - Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
   environment variable

 - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0

 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms

 - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/

 - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
   Arch Linux

 - Clean up Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
  kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
  kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
  kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
  kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
  kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
  kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
  kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
  modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
  kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
  Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
  kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
  kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
  kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
  kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
  kbuild: Abort make on install failures
  kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
  kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
  kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
  kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 4b81a49a25c4..c41260ffe99a 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1803,24 +1803,6 @@ config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
 	depends on KALLSYMS
 	default X86_64 && SMP
 
-config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE
-	bool
-	depends on KALLSYMS
-	default y
-	help
-	  Instead of emitting them as absolute values in the native word size,
-	  emit the symbol references in the kallsyms table as 32-bit entries,
-	  each containing a relative value in the range [base, base + U32_MAX]
-	  or, when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, each containing either
-	  an absolute value in the range [0, S32_MAX] or a relative value in the
-	  range [base, base + S32_MAX], where base is the lowest relative symbol
-	  address encountered in the image.
-
-	  On 64-bit builds, this reduces the size of the address table by 50%,
-	  but more importantly, it results in entries whose values are build
-	  time constants, and no relocation pass is required at runtime to fix
-	  up the entries based on the runtime load address of the kernel.
-
 # end of the "standard kernel features (expert users)" menu
 
 config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS