asn1_compiler.c | |
as-version.sh | Print the assembler name and its version in a 5 or 6-digit form. Also, perform the minimum version check. Compare with cc-version.sh and ld-version.sh |
bloat-o-meter | Simple script used to compare the symbol sizes of 2 object files |
bootgraph.pl | This script turns a dmesg output (dmesg | perl scripts/bootgraph.pl > output.svg) into a SVG graphic that shows which functions take how much time. For this script to work, the kernel needs to be compiled with the CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME configuration option enabled and with initcall_debug passed on the kernel command line. |
bpf_doc.py | |
cc-can-link.sh | |
cc-version.sh | Print the C compiler name and its version in a 5 or 6-digit form. Also, perform the minimum version check. Compare with as-version.sh and ld-version.sh |
checkdeclares.pl | find structs declared more than once |
check_extable.sh | |
check-git | Succeed if we're in a git repository |
checkincludes.pl | This script checks for duplicate includes. It also has support to remove them in place. |
checkkconfigsymbols.py | Find Kconfig symbols that are referenced but not defined. |
checkpatch.pl | See also cleanfile and cleanpatch |
checkstack.pl | Check the stack usage of functions |
checksyscalls.sh | Check if current architecture are missing any function calls compared to i386. |
check-sysctl-docs | Check sysctl documentation against source files |
checkversion.pl | finds uses of all macros in <linux/version.h> where the source files do not #include <linux/version.h>, or cases of including <linux/version.h> where it is not needed. |
cleanfile | Clean a text file or directory of text files of stealth whitespace. See also cleanpatch and checkpatch.pl |
cleanpatch | Clean a patch file or directory of patch files of stealth whitespace. See also cleanfile and checkpatch.pl |
coccicheck | Documented at Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst. |
config | Manipulate options in a .config file from the command line |
const_structs.checkpatch | List of structs ? |
decodecode | Disassemble the Code: line in Linux oopses |
decode_stacktrace.sh | |
depmod.sh | A depmod wrapper used by the toplevel Makefile |
dev-needs.sh | The script takes as input a list of one or more device directories under /sys/devices and then lists the probe dependency chain (suppliers and parents) of these devices. |
diffconfig | Utility for comparing two .config files. Using standard diff to compare .config files often includes extraneous and distracting information. |
documentation-file-ref-check | Treewide grep for references to files under Documentation, and report non-existing files in stderr. |
export_report.pl | |
extract-ikconfig | Extract the .config file from a kernel image (kernel must be compiled with CONFIG_IKCONFIG). |
extract-module-sig.pl | Reads the module file and writes out some or all of the signature section to stdout. |
extract-sys-certs.pl | |
extract-vmlinux | Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image |
extract_xc3028.pl | |
faddr2line | Translate stack dump function offsets. |
file-size.sh | Returns the size of a file or directory |
find-unused-docs.sh | Detect files with kernel-doc comments for exported functions that are not included in documentation. |
gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh | More info at https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81708 ? |
gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh | |
generate_initcall_order.pl | Generates a linker script that specifies the correct initcall order. |
generate_rust_analyzer.py | Generates the rust-project.json file for rust-analyzer |
generate_rust_target.rs | The custom target specification file generator for rustc. |
gen-randstruct-seed.sh | |
get_abi.pl | Parses the Linux ABI files and produce a ReST book. |
get_dvb_firmware | |
get_feat.pl | Parses the Linux Feature files and produce a ReST book. |
get_maintainer.pl | Prints selected maintainer information for the files modified in a patch or for a file. |
gfp-translate | Translates the bits making up a GFP mask |
headerdep.pl | Detect cycles in the header file dependency graph |
headers_install.sh | Prepares kernel header files for use by user space. |
head-object-list.txt | Objects (that contain an entry point?) that will be placed at the head of vmlinux. |
insert-sys-cert.c | Write the contents of a certfile into kernel symbol system_extra_cert. |
install.sh | See also /sbin/installkernel, adapted from code in arch/i386/boot/Makefile. |
is_rust_module.sh | Tests if a module (module.ko) is a Rust module. See also https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/97550 |
jobserver-exec | Determines how many parallel tasks make is expecting, as it is not exposed via an special variables, reserves them all, runs a subprocess with PARALLELISM environment variable set, and releases the jobs back again. |
kallsyms.c | Source code to create a binary (scripts/kallsyms) that creates assembler source containing symbol information. See also function kallsyms in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. |
Kbuild.include | Generic definitions to be included in other makefiles (Included for example from the top-level Makefile if not a mixed build.). |
Kconfig.include | Kconfig helper macros |
kernel-doc | Read C language source or header FILEs, extract embedded documentation comments and print formatted documentation to standard output. |
ld-version.sh | Print the linker name and its version in a 5 or 6-digit form. Also, perform the minimum version check. Compare with as-version.sh and cc-version.sh |
leaking_addresses.pl | Scan the kernel for potential leaking addresses. |
Lindent | Wrapper for indent. The L stands for latest style. See also Documentatin/process/coding-style.rst |
link-vmlinux.sh | Link built-in.a archive files to vmlinux. |
makelst | |
markup_oops.pl | |
min-tool-version.sh | Print the minimum supported version of a given tool (See also Documentation/process/changes.rst) |
misc-check | Detect files that are tracked but ignored by git. This is checked only when ${KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN} contains 1, git is installed and the source tree is tracked by git. misc-check seems to be invoked as one of the last (if not the last) steps when invoking make in the kernel source root directory. |
mkcompile_h | Create include/generated/compile.h. |
mksysmap | Create the System.map file based on the vmlinux file |
mkuboot.sh | Build U-Boot image when mkimage tool is available. |
module.lds.S | Common module linker script, used when linking a module. |
modules-check.sh | This script checks if the module names in modules.order files are unique by basically executing: sed 's:.*/::' $1 | sort | uniq -d |
nsdeps | Linux kernel symbol namespace import generator |
objdiff | Validates that a commit or series of commits didn't change object code. |
objdump-func | Disassembles a single function. |
orc_hash.sh | |
pahole-flags.sh | Prints pahole's version in a 3-digit form, such as 119 for v1.19. |
pahole-version.sh | |
parse-maintainers.pl | |
patch-kernel | Apply kernel patches |
profile2linkerlist.pl | Takes a (sorted) output of readprofile and turns it into a list suitable for linker scripts |
prune-kernel | Purge /boot and /lib/modules (especially when using CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO) |
recordmcount.c | |
recordmcount.h | |
recordmcount.pl | makes a section called __mcount_loc that holds all the offsets to the calls to mcount. |
relocs_check.sh | Get a list of all the relocations, remove from it the relocations that are known to be legitimate and return this list to arch specific script that will look for suspicious relocations |
remove-stale-files | |
rust_is_available_bindgen_libclang.h | |
rust_is_available.sh | Tests whether a suitable Rust toolchain is available. |
setlocalversion | Adds local version information from the version control systems git, mercurial (hg) and subversion (svn). |
show_delta | Read list of printk messages instrumented with time data, and format with time deltas. Also able to show the times relative to a fixed point. |
sign-file.c | Signs a module file using the given key. |
sorttable.c, sorttable.h | Source code for the executable source/sorttable which sorts the kernel's __ex_table section (alter the vmlinux file in-place). sorttable is used in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. See also CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT. |
spdxcheck.py | |
spdxcheck-test.sh | |
spdxexclude | Patterns for excluding files and directories (LICENSES/, license-rules.rst, kernel/configs/, arch/*/configs/, /CREDITS, /MAINTAINERS, /README). |
spelling.txt | Originally from Debian's Lintian tool - but with false positives removed and other words added. This file is used in checkpatch.pl. |
sphinx-pre-install | |
split-man.pl | Produce man pages from kernel-doc comments |
stackdelta | Read two files produced by the stackusage script, and show the delta between them.. |
stackusage | See also stackdelta |
subarch.include | Determines the value of SUBARCH. Included from the top-level Makefile if not a mixed build. |
syscallhdr.sh | Generates a syscall number header (apparently from a syscall.tbl file) |
syscallnr.sh | Generates a syscall number header (apparently from a syscall.tbl file) |
syscalltbl.sh | Generates a syscall table header (apparently from a syscall.tbl file) |
tags.sh | Generates tags, gtags or cscope files |
test_fortify.sh | |
tools-support-relr.sh | |
unifdef.c | remove ifdef'ed lines |
ver_linux | awk script that prints version of some tools (typically by using the tool's --version, -V etc. command line option). |
xen-hypercalls.sh | |
xz_wrap.sh | Wrapper for xz to compress the Kernel image using appropriate compression options depending on the architecture. |