Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - remove unneeded asm headers from hexagon, ia64

 - add 'dir-pkg' target, which works like 'tar-pkg' but skips archiving

 - add 'helpnewconfig' target, which shows help for new CONFIG options

 - support 'make nsdeps' for external modules

 - make rebuilds faster by deleting $(wildcard $^) checks

 - remove compile tests for kernel-space headers

 - refactor modpost to simplify modversion handling

 - make single target builds faster

 - optimize and clean up scripts/kallsyms.c

 - refactor various Makefiles and scripts

* tag 'kbuild-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update Kbuild/Kconfig maintainer's email address
  scripts/kallsyms: remove redundant initializers
  scripts/kallsyms: put check_symbol_range() calls close together
  scripts/kallsyms: make check_symbol_range() void function
  scripts/kallsyms: move ignored symbol types to is_ignored_symbol()
  scripts/kallsyms: move more patterns to the ignored_prefixes array
  scripts/kallsyms: skip ignored symbols very early
  scripts/kallsyms: add const qualifiers where possible
  scripts/kallsyms: make find_token() return (unsigned char *)
  scripts/kallsyms: replace prefix_underscores_count() with strspn()
  scripts/kallsyms: add sym_name() to mitigate cast ugliness
  scripts/kallsyms: remove unneeded length check for prefix matching
  scripts/kallsyms: remove redundant is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/kallsyms: set relative_base more effectively
  scripts/kallsyms: shrink table before sorting it
  scripts/kallsyms: fix definitely-lost memory leak
  scripts/kallsyms: remove unneeded #ifndef ARRAY_SIZE
  kbuild: make single target builds even faster
  modpost: respect the previous export when 'exported twice' is warned
  modpost: do not set ->preloaded for symbols from Module.symvers
  ...

5 files changed, 13 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 30554a2fbdd7..d77bb607aea4 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -128,8 +128,10 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
 	@echo  '  epubdocs        - EPUB'
 	@echo  '  xmldocs         - XML'
-	@echo  '  linkcheckdocs   - check for broken external links (will connect to external hosts)'
-	@echo  '  refcheckdocs    - check for references to non-existing files under Documentation'
+	@echo  '  linkcheckdocs   - check for broken external links'
+	@echo  '                    (will connect to external hosts)'
+	@echo  '  refcheckdocs    - check for references to non-existing files under'
+	@echo  '                    Documentation'
 	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
 	@echo
 	@echo  '  make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2'
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index 982ed7b568ac..9b76337f6756 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -152,3 +152,6 @@ in-tree modules::
 	- notice the warning of modpost telling about a missing import
 	- run `make nsdeps` to add the import to the correct code location
 
+You can also run nsdeps for external module builds. A typical usage is::
+
+	$ make -C <path_to_kernel_src> M=$PWD nsdeps
diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
index 9f4392876099..72fc2e9e2b63 100644
--- a/Documentation/dontdiff
+++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ mkutf8data
 modpost
 modules.builtin
 modules.builtin.modinfo
+modules.nsdeps
 modules.order
 modversions.h*
 nconf
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index b89c88168d6a..b9b50553bfc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -1115,23 +1115,6 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	In this example, extra-y is used to list object files that
 	shall be built, but shall not be linked as part of built-in.a.
 
-    header-test-y
-
-	header-test-y specifies headers (`*.h`) in the current directory that
-	should be compile tested to ensure they are self-contained,
-	i.e. compilable as standalone units. If CONFIG_HEADER_TEST is enabled,
-	this builds them as part of extra-y.
-
-    header-test-pattern-y
-
-	This works as a weaker version of header-test-y, and accepts wildcard
-	patterns. The typical usage is::
-
-		header-test-pattern-y += *.h
-
-	This specifies all the files that matches to `*.h` in the current
-	directory, but the files in 'header-test-' are excluded.
-
 6.7 Commands useful for building a boot image
 ---------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index 774a998dcf37..69fa48ee93d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -492,11 +492,8 @@ build.
 	to the symbols from the kernel to check if all external symbols
 	are defined. This is done in the MODPOST step. modpost obtains
 	the symbols by reading Module.symvers from the kernel source
-	tree. If a Module.symvers file is present in the directory
-	where the external module is being built, this file will be
-	read too. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file
-	will be written containing all exported symbols that were not
-	defined in the kernel.
+	tree. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file will be
+	written containing all exported symbols from that external module.
 
 6.3 Symbols From Another External Module
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -504,7 +501,7 @@ build.
 	Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from
 	another external module. Kbuild needs to have full knowledge of
 	all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined
-	symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation.
+	symbols. Two solutions exist for this situation.
 
 	NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended
 	but may be impractical in certain situations.
@@ -544,8 +541,8 @@ build.
 		all symbols defined and not part of the kernel.
 
 	Use "make" variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
-		If it is impractical to copy Module.symvers from
-		another module, you can assign a space separated list
+		If it is impractical to add a top-level kbuild file,
+		you can assign a space separated list
 		of files to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in your build file.
 		These files will be loaded by modpost during the
 		initialization of its symbol tables.