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+/*
+ * "Optimize" a list of dependencies as spit out by gcc -MD
+ * for the kernel build
+ * ===========================================================================
+ *
+ * Author       Kai Germaschewski
+ * Copyright    2002 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
+ *
+ * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
+ * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
+ *
+ *
+ * Introduction:
+ *
+ * gcc produces a very nice and correct list of dependencies which
+ * tells make when to remake a file.
+ *
+ * To use this list as-is however has the drawback that virtually
+ * every file in the kernel includes autoconf.h.
+ *
+ * If the user re-runs make *config, autoconf.h will be
+ * regenerated.  make notices that and will rebuild every file which
+ * includes autoconf.h, i.e. basically all files. This is extremely
+ * annoying if the user just changed CONFIG_HIS_DRIVER from n to m.
+ *
+ * So we play the same trick that "mkdep" played before. We replace
+ * the dependency on autoconf.h by a dependency on every config
+ * option which is mentioned in any of the listed prequisites.
+ *
+ * kconfig populates a tree in include/config/ with an empty file
+ * for each config symbol and when the configuration is updated
+ * the files representing changed config options are touched
+ * which then let make pick up the changes and the files that use
+ * the config symbols are rebuilt.
+ *
+ * So if the user changes his CONFIG_HIS_DRIVER option, only the objects
+ * which depend on "include/linux/config/his/driver.h" will be rebuilt,
+ * so most likely only his driver ;-)
+ *
+ * The idea above dates, by the way, back to Michael E Chastain, AFAIK.
+ *
+ * So to get dependencies right, there are two issues:
+ * o if any of the files the compiler read changed, we need to rebuild
+ * o if the command line given to the compile the file changed, we
+ *   better rebuild as well.
+ *
+ * The former is handled by using the -MD output, the later by saving
+ * the command line used to compile the old object and comparing it
+ * to the one we would now use.
+ *
+ * Again, also this idea is pretty old and has been discussed on
+ * kbuild-devel a long time ago. I don't have a sensibly working
+ * internet connection right now, so I rather don't mention names
+ * without double checking.
+ *
+ * This code here has been based partially based on mkdep.c, which
+ * says the following about its history:
+ *
+ *   Copyright abandoned, Michael Chastain, <mailto:mec@shout.net>.
+ *   This is a C version of syncdep.pl by Werner Almesberger.
+ *
+ *
+ * It is invoked as
+ *
+ *   fixdep <depfile> <target> <cmdline>
+ *
+ * and will read the dependency file <depfile>
+ *
+ * The transformed dependency snipped is written to stdout.
+ *
+ * It first generates a line
+ *
+ *   cmd_<target> = <cmdline>
+ *
+ * and then basically copies the .<target>.d file to stdout, in the
+ * process filtering out the dependency on autoconf.h and adding
+ * dependencies on include/config/my/option.h for every
+ * CONFIG_MY_OPTION encountered in any of the prequisites.
+ *
+ * It will also filter out all the dependencies on *.ver. We need
+ * to make sure that the generated version checksum are globally up
+ * to date before even starting the recursive build, so it's too late
+ * at this point anyway.
+ *
+ * The algorithm to grep for "CONFIG_..." is bit unusual, but should
+ * be fast ;-) We don't even try to really parse the header files, but
+ * merely grep, i.e. if CONFIG_FOO is mentioned in a comment, it will
+ * be picked up as well. It's not a problem with respect to
+ * correctness, since that can only give too many dependencies, thus
+ * we cannot miss a rebuild. Since people tend to not mention totally
+ * unrelated CONFIG_ options all over the place, it's not an
+ * efficiency problem either.
+ *
+ * (Note: it'd be easy to port over the complete mkdep state machine,
+ *  but I don't think the added complexity is worth it)
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+
+#define INT_CONF ntohl(0x434f4e46)
+#define INT_ONFI ntohl(0x4f4e4649)
+#define INT_NFIG ntohl(0x4e464947)
+#define INT_FIG_ ntohl(0x4649475f)
+
+char *target;
+char *depfile;
+char *cmdline;
+
+static void usage(void)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: fixdep <depfile> <target> <cmdline>\n");
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+static void print_cmdline(void)
+{
+	printf("cmd_%s := %s\n\n", target, cmdline);
+}
+
+struct item {
+	struct item	*next;
+	unsigned int	len;
+	unsigned int	hash;
+	char		name[0];
+};
+
+#define HASHSZ 256
+static struct item *hashtab[HASHSZ];
+
+static unsigned int strhash(const char *str, unsigned int sz)
+{
+	
+	unsigned int i, hash = 2166136261U;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < sz; i++)
+		hash = (hash ^ str[i]) * 0x01000193;
+	return hash;
+}
+
+static int is_defined_config(const char *name, int len, unsigned int hash)
+{
+	struct item *aux;
+
+	for (aux = hashtab[hash % HASHSZ]; aux; aux = aux->next) {
+		if (aux->hash == hash && aux->len == len &&
+		    memcmp(aux->name, name, len) == 0)
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void define_config(const char *name, int len, unsigned int hash)
+{
+	struct item *aux = malloc(sizeof(*aux) + len);
+
+	if (!aux) {
+		perror("fixdep:malloc");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	memcpy(aux->name, name, len);
+	aux->len = len;
+	aux->hash = hash;
+	aux->next = hashtab[hash % HASHSZ];
+	hashtab[hash % HASHSZ] = aux;
+}
+
+static void clear_config(void)
+{
+	struct item *aux, *next;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < HASHSZ; i++) {
+		for (aux = hashtab[i]; aux; aux = next) {
+			next = aux->next;
+			free(aux);
+		}
+		hashtab[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+static void use_config(const char *m, int slen)
+{
+	unsigned int hash = strhash(m, slen);
+	int c, i;
+
+	if (is_defined_config(m, slen, hash))
+	    return;
+
+	define_config(m, slen, hash);
+
+	printf("    $(wildcard include/config/");
+	for (i = 0; i < slen; i++) {
+		c = m[i];
+		if (c == '_')
+			c = '/';
+		else
+			c = tolower(c);
+		putchar(c);
+	}
+	printf(".h) \\\n");
+}
+
+static void parse_config_file(const char *map, size_t len)
+{
+	const int *end = (const int *) (map + len);
+	
+	const int *m   = (const int *) map + 1;
+	const char *p, *q;
+
+	for (; m < end; m++) {
+		if (*m == INT_CONF) { p = (char *) m  ; goto conf; }
+		if (*m == INT_ONFI) { p = (char *) m-1; goto conf; }
+		if (*m == INT_NFIG) { p = (char *) m-2; goto conf; }
+		if (*m == INT_FIG_) { p = (char *) m-3; goto conf; }
+		continue;
+	conf:
+		if (p > map + len - 7)
+			continue;
+		if (memcmp(p, "CONFIG_", 7))
+			continue;
+		for (q = p + 7; q < map + len; q++) {
+			if (!(isalnum(*q) || *q == '_'))
+				goto found;
+		}
+		continue;
+
+	found:
+		if (!memcmp(q - 7, "_MODULE", 7))
+			q -= 7;
+		if( (q-p-7) < 0 )
+			continue;
+		use_config(p+7, q-p-7);
+	}
+}
+
+static int strrcmp(char *s, char *sub)
+{
+	int slen = strlen(s);
+	int sublen = strlen(sub);
+
+	if (sublen > slen)
+		return 1;
+
+	return memcmp(s + slen - sublen, sub, sublen);
+}
+
+static void do_config_file(const char *filename)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	int fd;
+	void *map;
+
+	fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error opening config file: ");
+		perror(filename);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+	fstat(fd, &st);
+	if (st.st_size == 0) {
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+	map = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
+	if ((long) map == -1) {
+		perror("fixdep: mmap");
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	parse_config_file(map, st.st_size);
+
+	munmap(map, st.st_size);
+
+	close(fd);
+}
+
+static void parse_dep_file(void *map, size_t len)
+{
+	char *m = map;
+	char *end = m + len;
+	char *p;
+	char s[PATH_MAX];
+	int first;
+
+	p = strchr(m, ':');
+	if (!p) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: parse error\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	memcpy(s, m, p-m); s[p-m] = 0;
+	m = p+1;
+
+	clear_config();
+
+	first = 1;
+	while (m < end) {
+		while (m < end && (*m == ' ' || *m == '\\' || *m == '\n'))
+			m++;
+		p = m;
+		while (p < end && *p != ' ') p++;
+		if (p == end) {
+			do p--; while (!isalnum(*p));
+			p++;
+		}
+		memcpy(s, m, p-m); s[p-m] = 0;
+		if (strrcmp(s, "include/generated/autoconf.h") &&
+		    strrcmp(s, "arch/um/include/uml-config.h") &&
+		    strrcmp(s, "include/linux/kconfig.h") &&
+		    strrcmp(s, ".ver")) {
+			/*
+			 * Do not list the source file as dependency, so that
+			 * kbuild is not confused if a .c file is rewritten
+			 * into .S or vice versa. Storing it in source_* is
+			 * needed for modpost to compute srcversions.
+			 */
+			if (first) {
+				printf("source_%s := %s\n\n", target, s);
+				printf("deps_%s := \\\n", target);
+			} else
+				printf("  %s \\\n", s);
+			do_config_file(s);
+		}
+		first = 0;
+		m = p + 1;
+	}
+	printf("\n%s: $(deps_%s)\n\n", target, target);
+	printf("$(deps_%s):\n", target);
+}
+
+static void print_deps(void)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	int fd;
+	void *map;
+
+	fd = open(depfile, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error opening depfile: ");
+		perror(depfile);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+	if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error fstat'ing depfile: ");
+                perror(depfile);
+                exit(2);
+        }
+	if (st.st_size == 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,"fixdep: %s is empty\n",depfile);
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+	map = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
+	if ((long) map == -1) {
+		perror("fixdep: mmap");
+		close(fd);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	parse_dep_file(map, st.st_size);
+
+	munmap(map, st.st_size);
+
+	close(fd);
+}
+
+static void traps(void)
+{
+	static char test[] __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(int)))) = "CONF";
+	int *p = (int *)test;
+
+	if (*p != INT_CONF) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: sizeof(int) != 4 or wrong endianess? %#x\n",
+			*p);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	traps();
+
+	if (argc != 4)
+		usage();
+
+	depfile = argv[1];
+	target = argv[2];
+	cmdline = argv[3];
+
+	print_cmdline();
+	print_deps();
+
+	return 0;
+}