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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/syscall_descriptions.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/syscall_descriptions.md b/docs/syscall_descriptions.md index 3ff45e2c8..c00dbe09a 100644 --- a/docs/syscall_descriptions.md +++ b/docs/syscall_descriptions.md @@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ make Here `make extract` generates/updates the `*.const` files. `$KSRC` should point to the _latest_ kernel checkout.\ -Note: `make extract` overwrites `.config` in `$KSRC` and `mrproper`'s it. +_Note_: for Linux the _latest_ kernel checkout generally means the +[mainline](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/) tree.\ +However, in some cases we add descriptions for interfaces that are not in the mainline tree yet, +so if `make extract` complains about missing header files or constants undefined on all architectures, +try to use the latest [linux-next](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/) +tree (or if it happens to be broken at the moment, try a slightly older linux-next tree).\ +_Note_: `make extract` overwrites `.config` in `$KSRC` and `mrproper`'s it. Then `make generate` updates generated code and `make` rebuilds binaries.\ Note: `make generate` does not require any kernel sources, native compilers, etc @@ -133,6 +139,6 @@ make `$ARCH` is one of `amd64`, `386` `arm64`, `arm`, `ppc64le`. If the subsystem is supported on several architectures, then run `syz-extract` for each arch. `$LINUX` should point to kernel source checkout, which is configured for the -corresponding arch (i.e. you need to run `make someconfig && make` there first). +corresponding arch (i.e. you need to run `make ARCH=arch someconfig && make ARCH=arch` there first). If the kernel was built into a separate directory (with `make O=...`) then also set `$LINUXBLD` to the location of the build directory. |